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Re: Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:59:17 -0400 (EDT)

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> In the meantime, I think I'm going to start recommending the use of
> application/xml and deprecating the use of text/xml. 

Absolutely; as one poster said, it is one of the most important moves.
It almost never makes sense to use text/xml, unless your text is cleverly
arranged to be both WF XML and readable to someone who never heard of XML
*or* i18n.

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