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Re: [media-types] Proposed media type registration for YAML

Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk> Wed, 15 July 2015 18:19 UTC

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From: Ben Harris <bjh21@cam.ac.uk>
To: Chris Rebert <code@rebertia.com>, media-types@iana.org
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Subject: Re: [media-types] Proposed media type registration for YAML
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On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Chris Rebert wrote:

> (My apologies for replying off-list like this. I wasn't yet a
> subscriber when you posted your message, so I can't reply to it
> on-list properly. However, feel free to publicly reference or quote
> from this reply.)
>
> Based on YAML's entry in the de facto *nix MIME types database
> (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/freedesktop.org.xml.in
> ), you might consider including the following among the list of
> deprecated aliases:
>
> * application/x-yaml
>
> * text/yaml
> * text/x-yaml

Thanks.  I'll add them.  While they're listed as "YAML document", I doubt 
the author was considering the technical distinction between a YAML 
document and a YAML stream when writing that.

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Ben Harris, University of Cambridge Information Services.

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