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> The new MIME type for XSLT will by the way be application/xml+xslt, not > text/xml+xslt, at least this is outlined in section 8.17 of RFC 3023, > but I don't see any Internet Draft for the registration of this MIME > type, and I blame the WG hereby for beeing lazy. There isn't any > Internet draft for any SVG MIME type either, so one can't use SVG on the > web today, this is horrible. The SVG recommendation even mandates MIME > types that don't exist. 8.17 of RFC 3023 shows one possibility, but is not authoritative. > Anyway, sorry if I am missing something, but as far as I can tell there > is not even a media type for XSLT yet (and the RFC says that the media > type in the example SHOULD NOT be used until a real media type gets > registered). And again, I may be missing something major, but why > wouldn't text/xsl+xml be the natural thing that got registered, since > that is the de-facto standard now anyway? Please accept my very sincere > apologies if I am stepping on some ground that has been hashed over and > is contentious; I am just curious? I believe that the WG is happy with application/xml and do not see any requirements to register specialized media types for XSLT. Could somebody in the XSL WG confirm this? By the way, text/* is inappropriate for XSLT, since casual users will not like fallback to text/plain. More about this, see RFC 3023, RFC 2045, and RFC 2046. Cheers, Makoto (a co-author of RFC 3023)
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