Re: image/svg+xml, was: Feedback on Internet Media Types and the Web

On 18.11.2010 17:40, Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Monday, November 8, 2010, 7:59:54 PM, Noah wrote:
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> NM>  Julian Reschke wrote:
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>   >>  Which reminds me that it may be time for the TAG to look into the
>   >>  image/sxg+xml issue.
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> NM>  I assume that's a typo for svg+xml?
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> NM>  I'd first be curious to hear what some of those responsible for RFC 3023
> NM>  bis think.  I'm copying Chris and Murata-san.  To me, having a +xml type
> NM>  that's sometimes not XML seems bogus, but let's see what others say.
>
> Its *always XML*. It may have been encoded, so the MIME layer will need to decode it. This is why the encoding is given in a separate filed from the content type. The content type does not change.
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The registration says it might be gzipped. That's the problem we've been 
debating for months now.

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> Similarly, you see the text of this email as plain text, despite the fact that it may have been encoded using quoted-printable or base-64 encoding.
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Yes, but that's an aspect of the *transport*, not of the media type.

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Best regards, Julian

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