Re: The role of media types for XML content

Liam Quin <liam@w3.org> Wed, 15 June 2005 16:05 UTC

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From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
To: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: The role of media types for XML content
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:45:04AM +0900, MURATA Makoto wrote:
> Liam> I'd like to see a registration for the XML syntax simply because
> Liam> it's useful today, despite the limitations.
> 
> Then, why doesn't W3C register specialized media types for XSLT or 
> W3C XML Schema?  Is there some consensus in W3C?

XSLT - I think application/xslt+xml is either registered or the
registration will be sent here for XSLT 2.  I don't know the status
for Schema offhand -- we're getting better, slowly :-)

> Anyway, we can do nothing about a specialized media type for the RNG 
> XML syntax by November.
Understood.  Thanks for the reply.

Liam

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