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XML MIME types: server vs. client support?

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• Subject: XML MIME types: server vs. client support?
• From: Ken Sall <kensall@c...>
• Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:01:41 -0400

I have an XML document, participants.xml, that references a DTD and an XSLT
1.0 stylesheet with the following XML prolog and PI:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE Participants SYSTEM "participants.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="participantNameSort.xsl"?>

On my own PC, using NS 6.2.3 and IE 6 clients, I get the expected result of
applying the stylesheet to the XML data and delivering HTML to either
browser. However, when I uploaded the files to my Web host's server (running
Netscape-Enterprise/4.1, according to http://www.netcraft.com/), things are
fine with IE 6, *but* with NS 6.2.3 (and Mozilla 1.0), I get the raw
angle-bracketted XML in participants.xml (not the content of XML elements
and not the result of applying the stylesheet).

For comparsion, I uploaded the files to another server,  running
Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 on Linux. Again, IE 6 was fine, but NS
6.2.3 displayed the *element contents* of participants.xml, just as if the
stylesheet wasn't processed.

Is this a server MIME type problem? Do I need to petition my Web host
(rotsa-ruck ;-) to configure a set of XML MIME types? If so, what's the
appropriate set to ask them to support? Or is this an NS/Mozilla client bug?

According to RFC 3023, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt, the first 5 XML
MIME types below are proposed. Two others that I will need follow.

(1) text/xml
(2) application/xml
(3) text/xml-external-parsed-entity
(4) application/xml- external-parsed-entity
(5) application/xml-dtd
(6) application/xslt+xml
(7) image/svg+xml

Do I need to change type="text/xsl" in the stylesheet PI above?

Is there a central place where *all* XML MIME types are listed, especially
indicating their current status and whether they are supported by particular
Web servers and browsers?

Isn't there some telnet/http GET command that I can send to my server to
find out all MIME types they support?

Thanks very much.

- Ken Sall              kensall@c... or ken@s...
- XML Specialist        http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kensall/
- XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide (just published)
- http://WDVL.Internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily/

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