• To: "'Bob Irving'" <bob.irving@b...>
• Subject: RE: [Summary, VERSION #3] Media type (MIME) of XML in MS Word? in Notepad? when compressed? etc
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:05:20 +0100
• Cc: "'XML List Developers'" <xml-dev@l...>
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> Mac OSes up to 9 had a 'resource fork' in each file 
> containing codes indicating the creator and the type of data. 

Similarly, ICL VME had/has a file description associated with each file
containing such metadata. The idea has also been reinvented with WebDAV.

But I think we're saddled with Unix and Windows for a few years yet.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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