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

Zach Shelby <zach@sensinode.com> Wed, 16 November 2011 04:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] +exi (was: Re: type name suffixes)
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On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote:

>> Besides, the current media type for EXI is application/exi. Thus it would make perfect sense to have +exi entries. Furthermore, EXI is totally different than gzip, which is a generic encoding that can be applied to anything. EXI can be applied only to XML objects, and in particular EXI is often used in a schema mode where it is only applicable to a single schema. Thus the form application/schema+exi makes even more sense, as that EXI format is actually specific to that particular schema and the media type tells you everything that is needed to decode the representation. 
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> These arguments were part of the discussion during EXI, and W3C decided to use a content-coding.

The W3C standard defines application/exi here 

http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-exi-20091208/#mediaTypeRegistration

Zach

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