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At 10:15 AM 1/15/99 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >David LeBlanc wrote: > >> I don't agree with the idea that XML is a replacement for ASCII. > >Figuratively, not literally. The idea is that XML is meant to become >the (near)ubiquitous way of expressing structured text or data, just as >plain ASCII is the (near)ubiquitous way of expressing plain text >or data. (But not forever: Unicode plain text rulz!) > Ah! agreed!! <snip> > >> Neither does "application" imply C, C++, Java or whatever else. In fact, I >> wonder if "application/xml" is appropriate at all - does "application/RTF" >> or "application/TROFF" make sense? > >Yes, very much so. Troff source can and should be specified as >"application/x-troff" and could be registered as "application/troff" >if anyone wanted to bother. But "text/x-troff" would be reasonable >too, since much troff source can reasonably read as plain text. >RTF source is usually too *busy* to be read as plain text, though. > >Anent the "application" top-level type, RFC 2046 saith: > ># [...T]ypically either uninterpreted binary data or information to be ># processed by an application. [... E]xpected uses for "application" ># include spreadsheets, data for mail-based scheduling systems, and ># languages for "active" (computational) messaging, and word ># processing formats that are not directly readable. > Ok, thanks for the clarification - I inferred that "application" meant "runnable". >-- >John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... Dave LeBlanc 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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