Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-shelby-exi-registration-01.txt

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Fri, 13 April 2012 16:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-shelby-exi-registration-01.txt
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Carsten Bormann writes:

>> Note: this is a serious question. Is there useful stuff that can be done with an application/senml*exi file without knowing that it's senml?
>
> (Assuming that this is about the schema-informed EXI version:)
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Calling it application/senml is still not very good because there are also application/senml+json and application/senml+xml.
>
> So I would call the schema-informed version application/senml-exi.
> (Actually, I'd call it application/senml-exi-a and elide the EXI header, but that is a different discussion.)

Why not call it application/senml+xml and encode it with EXI?  Doesn't
that tell you everything you need?  Provided you put everything you
need about schemaIDs for senml in the media type registration for
application/senml+xml.

ht
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