Re: Do we want to bring p:data back?

What about <p:document href="pipe.xpl" 
override-content-type="application/octet-stream"/> ?

On 07.09.2017 15:48, Norman Walsh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When we moved towards supporting non-XML documents natively, we
> decided that p:data wasn’t necessary anymore. The idea being that
> p:document could load XML or non-XML documents.
> 
> I wonder if that’s true. If we can determine the media type from the
> filename, I suppose we could use that, but that raises two problems:
> what if the media type is unknown and what if the author knows they
> want to load a .bin file as XML?
> 
> In other words, what does this mean:
> 
>    <p:document href="pipe.xpl"/>
> 
> Do we try to load that as XML and fall back to non-XML if the parse
> fails? What if it’s supposed to be XML and is not well-formed?
> 
> I begin to suspect that p:data is actually useful for authors. It
> allows them to express “load this as binary” while p:document allows
> them to express “load this as XML”.
> 
> We could keep a single element and allow them to make this distinction
> with an attribute (a content-type attribute, for example), or document
> properties:
> 
>    <p:document href="pipe.xpl"
>                document-properties="{ map {{ 'content-type': 'image/png' }} }”/>
> 
> but that’s a lot more typing.
> 
>                                          Be seeing you,
>                                            norm
> 
> P.S. Separate email coming in a moment about the awkwardness of that
> document-properties AVT.
> 

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