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Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Wed, 16 November 2011 03:14 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:14:48 +0800
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On 11/16/11 11:06 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * 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.

Right. We did something similar for SVG, where there is a gzipped
encoding but not a separate media type for svgz.

Peter

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