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At 11:59 AM 27/10/01 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit: >> In the meantime, I think I'm going to start recommending the use of >> application/xml and deprecating the use of text/xml. >Absolutely; as one poster said, it is one of the most important moves. >It almost never makes sense to use text/xml, unless your text is cleverly >arranged to be both WF XML and readable to someone who never heard of XML >*or* i18n. Hmm... in practical terms, using text/xml doesn't usually break things, since most actual software, near as I can tell, cheerfully ignores the RFC rules and figures out the actual encoding. Doesn't mean the folks posting on this are wrong. application/xml is less likely to cause breakage when rules are being followed, and it's really hard to think of a good reason to use text/xml. In particular, it seems counter-intuitive to expect J. Random Webserver to know what encoding it's shipping out in the general case. -Tim
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