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Re: Call for example of server enabled for XML multiple repres

• To: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@n...>
• Subject: Re: Call for example of server enabled for XML multiple representations
• From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
• Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 19:47:13 +0200
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <007901c1f36b$28e06790$6401a8c0@didierhome>
• Organization: Eternia Pub. Inc.
• References: <007901c1f36b$28e06790$6401a8c0@didierhome>

* Didier PH Martin wrote:
>I got no answers for servers able to support multiple XML
>representations based on the "content-type" header. Maybe
>this is because I asked the wrong question. Let's formulate
>a new one:

All servers supporting content negotiation, Apache and
Jigsaw to mention two.

>Does anyone has a server or use a server able to support
>the "accept" header contained in an HTTP GET request.

That's actually the same question :-)

>For instance, if the HTTP GET is expressed as follow:
>
>GET /myfolder/mydoc.xml HTTP/1.1
>host: www.mydomain.com
>accept: text/svg
>
>Then the server send a reply containing an SVG representation
>of this XML document.

Ok.

>If on the other hand the following request is sent:
>
>GET /myfolder/mydoc.xml HTTP/1.1
>host: www.mydomain.com
>accept: text/html
>
>The server replies with an HTML representation of this XML
>document.

Does not make sense to me, if I want to publish a document, I use XHTML,
if I want to publish a vector graphic, I use SVG. Having the same
content in XHTML and SVG seems to be inappropriate use of one of these
technologies.

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