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Bill is right here. In the web environment, HTTP headers should be used to determine MIME etc with extentions just being a fallback mechanism. You can always get just the headers with an HTTP HEAD; no need to request the whole resource. Cheers, Manos bryan wrote: > > Bill wrote: > >>The extension doesn't matter a whit. > > >>It's the delivered MIME type that matters more, which is >>application/rss+xml >>regardless of version. > > > Are there any systems out there that determine the MIME type by > extension? Yes. > So if the MIME type matters more, then on those systems the extension > can be considered to matter as much as the MIME type, with whatever > additional meaningfulness can be ascribed to the extension. > > Currently as far as I know there is no web server/application that > returns MIME type of xml by instance structure. It wouldn't be too > difficult to build an app that did this however. > > Another thing would be, what if say, I'm building an application that > searches the web for RDF, one of the things I'm gonna do is go by > extension... an extension on the web is an important method for > determining advisability of issuing a GET against the resource, > obviously one always has to provide filtering but originally I was > thinking that there was a particular product outputting rss version 0.91 > with a RDF extension. If so this was some good data to have. > > > Bob wrote: > > >>I just pulled down the feed with a pubDate of Thu, 07 Aug 2003 02:33:38 > > PST >and I don't see any RDF in there. > > Right the original reason I found it was that I was looking for files > with rdf extension and then just the text rss, which I was hoping to > parse further to find rss 1.0 files, I got that feed from Wired, so I > thought, that's interesting data if indeed there is a product that > outputs rss 0.91 with RDF extension, I have a good chance of identifying > feeds running said product, Dave Winer indicated it was probably "based > on Vignette" and "There was a lot of confusion about what RDF was back > when Wired's feed came online." Thus indicating that unfortunately this > was unlikely to be useful data. > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > -- Manos Batsis _ __ __ __ / |/ /__ / /____ __ _ ___ _____/ /_ / / -_) __(_-</ ' Y _ `/ __/ __/ /_/|_/\__/\__/___/_/_/_|_,_/_/ \__/ http://www.netsmart.gr mbatsis at netsmart dot gr (+30) 210 33 02 608 (+30) 210 33 02 658 http://forte.netsmart.gr/foaf/manos_foaf.rdf
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