[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: rss 0.91 with rdf extension

• To: bryan <bry@i...>
• Subject: Re: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
• From: "Emmanuil Batsis (Manos)" <mbatsis@n...>
• Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 12:18:03 +0300
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <000001c35d89$5c0acbe0$2001a8c0@bryans>
• Organization: Netsmart S.A., Greece
• References: <000001c35d89$5c0acbe0$2001a8c0@bryans>
• Reply-to: mbatsis@n...
• User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4)Gecko/20030624

Hi Bryan,

bryan wrote:
> Two things there:
> 
> 1. You're right, should use HTTP HEAD to get MIME type
> 
> 2. But if the MIME type is being set by the server dependent on
> extension this is not sure-fire. 

Well, the server does not respond with a MIME type just by the file 
extention. In a dynamically generated response, the server side "page" 
(JSP/PHP/ASP/whatever) is responsible for that. My point was that in 
general, the server side stuff is responsible on picking the right MIME.

<snip/>
 > This is why I
> discussed that it might be nice to have an application that determines
> the most appropriate MIME type from an xml instance structure, as an
> interface to a set of webresources. 
> 
> As in mimeresolver.aspx?page=rss.rdf

Yes, this may be usefull (or even mandatory depending on your app). 
Perhaps using SAX (to avoid parsing the whole tree into memory) and go 
till the first startElement event to check the namespace of the root 
node, then use that to determine what the file wants to be.

Cheers,

-- 
Manos Batsis

     _  __    __                    __
    / |/ /__ / /____ __ _ ___ _____/ /_
   /    / -_) __(_-</  ' Y _ `/ __/ __/
  /_/|_/\__/\__/___/_/_/_|_,_/_/  \__/

http://www.netsmart.gr
mbatsis at netsmart dot gr
(+30) 210 33 02 608
(+30) 210 33 02 658
http://forte.netsmart.gr/foaf/manos_foaf.rdf

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
    • From: "bryan" <bry@i...>

• References:
  • RE: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
    • From: "bryan" <bry@i...>

• Prev by Date: RE: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
• Next by Date: Re: [ANN] Exchanger XML Editor 1.0 Released
• Previous by thread: RE: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
• Next by thread: RE: rss 0.91 with rdf extension
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread