- From: MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 14:47:53 +0900
- To: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, timbl@w3.org, simonstl@simonstl.com, Tsmith@parc.xerox.com, xsl-editors@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: > Yes. My concern is that the question "is this thing, returned as > application/xml, actually xml or not" should *not* have multiple > answers. In general, MIME types can never provide all information about the content. You have to read the MIME body. The MIME type only tells you which program can read the MIME body. In the case of external parsed entities, your point is that application/xml or text/xml do not provide enough information, since XML processors cannot handle external parsed entities directly. You would lilke the MIME header to say "I do not parse as an XML document, but don't throw me away. I parse as an external parsed entity." If some programs that can handle external parsed entities directly (i.e., without using XML processors for XML documents that reference to them), your point perfectly makes sense. Are there such programs? Do people in this ML have such programs? Cheers, Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp
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