- From: Andrew Layman <andrewl@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:03:06 -0800
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org, "'Dennis Keeling'" <DKeeling@basda.org>
Dennis Keeling and others have publicly given demonstrations in which XML messages (SOAP messages, in fact) were processable by some agents as data and yet were, without modification, also viewable by causal users of browsers. In his case, a purchase order could be entered into an accounting system and/or rendered on a browser screen. In fact, this is typical of much data expressed in XML, and is part of the intention of the semantic web, namely that the same information is viewable by casual users (via a style sheet) and processable by an application looking for semantically-bound elements. -----Original Message----- From: mmurata@trl.ibm.co.jp [mailto:mmurata@trl.ibm.co.jp] Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 6:39 PM To: xml-dist-app@w3.org Cc: mmurata@trl.ibm.co.jp Subject: text/xml for SOAP (and XP) considered harmful Folks, I am writing as a co-author of an upcoming Proposed Standard RFC for XML media types. It is in the RFC editor's queue. http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html SOAP uses "text/xml". But it should use "application/xml". "text/xml" is appropriate only when the XML document is readable by casual users (not programmers). More about this issue, see the latest I-D as below: http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murata-xml-09.txt Best, IBM Tokyo Research Lab / International University of Japan, Research Institute MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)
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