Re: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> Sun, 20 May 2007 23:02 UTC

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On Friday, May 18, 2007, 7:54:32 AM, Anne wrote:

AvK> On Fri, 18 May 2007 03:12:09 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>> The successor to RFC 3023 needs to indicate that binary XML which is  
>> presented as a new encoding (in the xml sense) can use +xml, while other  
>> binary forms cannot.

AvK> You wouldn't be able to still parse the retrieved resource in that case
AvK> with a generic XML parser. Wasn't that the whole idea of +xml?

Swapping your sentences around: yes, the whole idea of +xml is that you know you can use a generic XML parser.

Something that might or might not be xml, therefore should not use +xml.

An XML parser must understand UTF-8 and UTF-16 and may understand other encodings. I gather that the Efficient XML folks will declare a new encoding, and parsers which don't know it will not parse it. Same is if I said the encoding was

encoding="i-bet-you-never-heard-of-this-one"


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
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