Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-voice+xml
Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> Wed, 13 July 2005 16:59 UTC
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:59:33 +0200
From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
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Subject: Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-voice+xml
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On Wednesday, July 13, 2005, 6:33:04 PM, Gerald wrote: GM> I asked the IESG to postpone the publication of the GM> application/xhtml-voice+xml media type as an informational RFC. The GM> registration is not correct. It should be GM> application/xhtml+voice+xml. The application/xhtml+voice+xml media GM> type was the original submission. The entire reason that the +xml suffix was changed from the original -xml suffix was beczause there were a number of hyphenated types in use but little/no types where the terms were separated by +. GM> There is an issue with the original submission: GM> One of the reviewers pointed out that "a certain class of error GM> could be avoided by renaming this GM> application/xhtml-plus-voice+xml... I don't know of any other "+xml" GM> [see RFC3023] media types that have a "+" in the name... a GM> poorly-constructed regexp looking for +xml along the lines of GM> /\+(.*)$/ would miss this one." I agree that so far there are no types with a + in the name, and that using some other allowed separator would be preferable. GM> 1. In particular there is the work in the W3C Compound Document GM> Format (CDF) working group. They are looking at defining a single GM> media type that will handle the many possible document format GM> combinations of XHTML, SVG, Voice, SMIL, XForms, etc. This media GM> type may include multiple "+" put in a profile attribute. Probably not (I for one would argue against it, being a member of that group). But 'may include' is pretty weak. GM> 2. The argument for having "+" in the subtype is unconvincing, GM> given that the simplest method to determine if something is XML is GM> also the safest, that is, if the last four characters are "+xml" or GM> "/xml" then the document is XML, otherwise it is not. If that has to GM> be done with regexps, instead of just examining the last four bytes, GM> that would be /[/+]xml$/. If type and subtype were split already it GM> would be /\+?xml$/ for the subtype. True. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Bruce Lilly
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Gerald McCobb
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Gerald McCobb
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Gerald McCobb
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Bjoern Hoehrmann
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Jonny Axelsson
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Martin Duerst
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Gerald McCobb
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Chris Lilley
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Mark Baker
- Registration of media type application/xhtml-voic… Gerald McCobb
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Jonny Axelsson
- Re: Registration of media type application/xhtml-… Bjoern Hoehrmann