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RE: XML media types revisited

  • From: "Matthew Sergeant (EML)" <Matthew.Sergeant@e...>
  • To: XML-Dev Mailing list <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:10:30 +0100

vml mime type
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Simon St.Laurent [SMTP:simonstl@s...]
> 
> Of course plain text will still survive; I'm hardly proposing abolishing
> text or application as top-level types.  I'm just saying that XML is a
> top-level type itself. 
> 
	I've been thinking about this, and I think it's wrong. In a previous
life I programmed on the Amiga. They had a hunked file format called IFF
that was similar in some ways to XML, it allowed you to store structured
data in (binary) files, and had many applications:

	iff/ilbm - the standard bitmap graphic format
	iff/ftext - an rtf-like standard
	iff/dr2d - a 2d vector graphic format

	etc.

	Now we wouldn't have considered this as a top level mime type, just
because you used the same parser code to get at the data, because the data
represents _completely_ different things. So personally I think we should
just have:

	text/docbook
	image/vml
	application/x-resume (I'm working on a resume DTD if anyone's
interested)

	etc.

	Just my .02

Matt.
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