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> -----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. -- http://come.to/fastnet Perl on Win32, PerlScript, ASP, Database, XML GCS(GAT) d+ s:+ a-- C++ UL++>UL+++$ P++++$ E- W+++ N++ w--@$ O- M-- !V !PS !PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5 R tv+ X++ b+ DI++ D G-- e++ h--->z+++ R+++ 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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