- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 15:16:54 -0500
- To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
>Again, we are in complete agreement. Perhaps one of the biggest >problems that we have had with enhancing the self-describing web is the >use of XML as a container language and identifying ONLY the container in >the mime type, particularly application/soap+xml. The same problems we >have with identifying the mime type of a document are the same problems >with have with identifying the xml language(s) and version(s) in a >document. There doesn't seem to be a lot of consensus on how to deal >with container languages and versioning practices thereof, AFAICT. It >seems that HTML and XML have mostly copied the MIME practice of just >identifying the outermost language and not having a "manifest" of the >versions embedded within. +1. In fact, +2. Pat Hayes -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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