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W. Eliot Kimber wrote: > 1. The same effect can be provided by supertype data content notations > (using data attributes, which XML doesn't support) Agreed. "Blast and damn [the people who kept data attributes out]! May they all suffer from elephantiasis, locomotor ataxy, and ingrown toenails!" -- _Murder Must Advertise_ (somewhat repurposed) > 2. having only two levels of typing seems either insufficient or > unnecessarily limiting. Not so. MIME types may have more than two levels, but must have at least two, and the requirement for creating a new top-level type is stringent. > 3. It assumes that the resource is something for which distinctions like > text or not-text are even relevant. It may not be, because the data type > may be entirely abstract (like an SGML architecture or grove construction > process). MIME types are a syntax standard: they tell you how to interpret an octet-stream as something or other: currently, a picture, a sound, a character stream, a video stream, application-specific data, a model of a physical object, a message, or an aggregate of one or more of these things. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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