Re: Near final draft of TAG finding on the Self-Describing Web

Noah,

I like the draft and the recent changes to it very much.

I have an issue with Sec 4.2.3, "Self-describing XML Documents",
though, specifically the second sentence which says;

"Given that a Web document is of media type application/xml, or in the
family of media types application/____+xml, recursive processing from
the root element may be applied to determine not just the overall
nature of the document, but also the meaning in context of all
sub-elements."

My concern is with the mention of the application/xml media type
there, which I feel inappropriate because RFC 3023 doesn't license,
for example, that an XHTML document delivered as application/xml is
intended to evoke XHTML semantics.

Also, in section 6.1, reference is made to RFC 2717 (as an example)
which has been obsoleted by RFC 4395.

Mark.

Received on Friday, 16 January 2009 20:40:25 UTC