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Jonathan Borden writes: > David Megginson wrote: > > Isn't it easier to identify the resource type externally so > > that it can be handed directly to the correct processor? > Assuming that HTML is defined in XML, then isn't the correct > processor the XML processor? text/xml correctly identifies the > content-type. If you make an exception for the specific XHTML DTD > then why not for every DTD! But I do think that you should make an exception for every document type -- text/xml should just be a fallback, when all else has failed. Why should there be a single processor to handle everything that happens to be encoded in XML? I don't have a single compiler for every programming language that happens to use ASCII, or a single application that processes any data that arrives in a zip file. If I have a vector graphic format that happens to use XML, I want to pass it off to a vector-graphic processor; if I have a browsable document, I want to pass it off to a browser; if I have a 3D world, I want to pass it off to a 3D renderer; if I have an e-commerce transaction, I want to pass it off to my order-processing application; etc., etc. I can imagine many circumstances where parsing the XML first to figure out what it is could be useful, but if it is already possible to know the type, then doing so is very wasteful. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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