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There's been some thought about doing it but I think we're watching the progress of the html group's html+xml draft first. (speaking about MathML here) But personally the more I think about this, the less I like it, and see so little use for media types for XML languages. Except for test files MathML never lives on its own, it's always embedded in a larger document type, XHTML, DocBook, TEI, whatever. Since the same document might also have svg, you end up with application/xhtml+mathml+svg+xml and permutations of that. It seems unreasonable to expect any application to do anything with that and in practice a more workable alternative is to serve everything as application/xml and let the application key individual processing requirements off the namespaces contained in the document. (Actually my "home" isp will serve .xml files as text/xml with no possibility of changing that, but that's a different thread) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.
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