Media Types 'text/csv' and 'text/comma-separated-values'

[YakovS at solidmatrix.com (Yakov Shafranovich)]

Hi all,

I noticed that the MIME registration tree has an entry for 
'text/tab-separated-values' but for some reason doesn't have any 
registration for 'text/comma-separated-values' or 'text/csv. I have been 
reviewing some of the stuff out there and so far have seen the following 
being used:

application/csv
text/csv
text/comma-separated-values
text/x-csv

I was wondering if there would be any value to formally register two of 
the CSV types being used from the text tree (text/csv and 
text/comma-separated-values). I put together a small draft which hasn't 
posted to the ID repository yet. A copy should be available here:

http://www.shaftek.org/publications/drafts/mime-csv/draft-shafranovich-mime-csv-00.txt

Yakov
>From [e-mail]  Thu Feb  3 09:19:50 2005
From: duerst at w3.org (Martin Duerst)
Date: Thu Feb  3 09:19:59 2005
Subject: Media Types 'text/csv' and 'text/comma-separated-values'
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Hello Yakov,

Good work. Two comments:

- I think registering just text/cvs should be enough.
   One point of the registry is to reduce the number of values
   used for the same thing to one. The registration can serve
   to converge to that.
- I like the realism in the "Encoding considerations" section,
   but shouldn't you at least mention LF also for line ends,
   or just leave out specific values?

Regards,    Martin.


At 10:58 05/02/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
 >Hi all,
 >
 >I noticed that the MIME registration tree has an entry for 
'text/tab-separated-values' but for some reason doesn't have any 
registration for 'text/comma-separated-values' or 'text/csv. I have been 
reviewing some of the stuff out there and so far have seen the following 
being used:
 >
 >application/csv
 >text/csv
 >text/comma-separated-values
 >text/x-csv
 >
 >I was wondering if there would be any value to formally register two of 
the CSV types being used from the text tree (text/csv and 
text/comma-separated-values). I put together a small draft which hasn't 
posted to the ID repository yet. A copy should be available here:
 >
 >http://www.shaftek.org/publications/drafts/mime-csv/draft-shafranovich-mime-csv-00.txt
 >
 >Yakov
 >