- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:12:03 -0500
- To: Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com>
- Cc: "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
I have a vague intuition that some of the metadata we might want to carry is specific to the "Representation" header, but others might be applicable to a broader range of MTOM content. For example, just because my binary is an image/jpeg doesn't mean I should need to claim that it's a cached copy of some particular URI. So, I'd claim we want to allow media type annontation on most any child element that's base64Binary. Perhaps the same for some others such as content-encoding, content-language, etc. On the other hand, I would think that the URI being cached is pertinent only to the Representation header. So: would it be worth a bit of energy to sort out which things apply only to Representation and which to a broader range of MTOM content. BTW: It's really too bad that XML doesn't have structured attributes, as many of the MIME headers would seem to fit nicely as structured attributes on the corresponding base64Binary representation of the content. -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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