Re: Positions on "List of issues"
Paul Langer <pl@softwareag.com> Tue, 13 April 1999 17:11 UTC
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Rick Jelliffe wrote (http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00064.html): > In particular, I think we are missing a key distinction that the MIME > content-type is not so much the "type" of a resource, but the type of a > particular *publication* of a resource. I disagree with this definiton of the semantics of "MIME content-type". As far as I know, the MIME mechanism is the only mechanism for data typing that is available today on the Internet. The HTTP/1.1 spec (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt) says: "3.7 Media Types HTTP uses Internet Media Types [17] in the Content-Type (section 14.17) and Accept (section 14.1) header fields in order to provide open and extensible data typing and type negotiation." XML is portable data; the particular use of this data should not be specified by the "publisher". The user should be able to detect the data type and then select an application that he/she likes. How can a "publisher" know, what applications are available at the user's site? All the best, Paul ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul Langer E-mail pl@softwareag.com Software AG Tel. +49-6151-92-1912 Uhlandstr. 12 Fax +49-6151-92-1613 D-64297 Darmstadt
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