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Re: [apps-discuss] +exi (was: Re: type name suffixes)

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Wed, 16 November 2011 03:06 UTC

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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:06:42 +0100
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] +exi (was: Re: type name suffixes)
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* Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>So, let's say I have "foo" data that can be represented in either plain
>old XML or as EXI. If I send that "foo" data as plain old XML, the
>"application/foo+xml" media type is right. If I send that "foo" data as
>EXI, the "application/foo+exi" media type seems wrong, and so does the
>"application/exi" media type (just as "application/xml" would not be
>right for the first encoding). Sure, I don't particularly want to
>duplicate all "+xml" entries with "+exi" entries, but I don't think that
>every protocol or community that sends around XML data will also send
>around EXI-encoded data.

The idea is that "EXI" is more like "gzip", so with HTTP you would do

  Content-Type: application/foo+xml
  Content-Encoding: exi

As you would for gzip-compressed content.
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