- From: Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:19:06 -0700
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- CC: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, xml-dist-app@w3.org
Perhaps not the best place to discuss Atom, but was curious as to how this work given that MIME media types apply to octet-streams? -Anish -- Mark Baker wrote: > I see Atom as a sort of "simple SOAP" in that it's a generic, XML based > envelope for content. It might interest you to know that it supports > using a media type to describe the content of entries, even when they're > XML; > > On the atom:content element, the value of the "type" attribute MAY be > one of "text", "html", or "xhtml". Failing that, it MUST be a MIME > media type, but MUST NOT be a composite type (see Section 4.2.6 of > [MIMEREG]). If the type attribute is not provided, Atom Processors > MUST behave as though it were present with a value of "text". > > -- Sec 4.1.3.1 of > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-atompub-format-09.txt > > Mark. > -- > Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca > Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com >
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