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Re: Media type (MIME) of XML in MS Word? in Notepad? when comp

• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Media type (MIME) of XML in MS Word? in Notepad? when compressed? etc
• From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@g...>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:06:32 +0200
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Note that the specific reference to windows is based on the reference
to MS word in the original mail, since otherwise the mail had nothing
to do with Microsoft.

Some of the problems you discuss here are touched on by Elliot Rusty
Harold in an article for IBM
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-mxd2.html

However it is a short article, and could easily be expanded to 200
pages to really get at the problems.

On 6/10/06, bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@g...> wrote:
> Since the Windows operating system doesn't map mime types in itself
> but is more concerned with the extension of something then I think the
> question is somewhat not pertinent. In the context of a Windows system
> where IIS is installed the mime types traditionally (without
> programmer interference) map to particular extensions, so then the
> question is what are the default mappings of file extensions to mime
> types when served via IIS.
>
> Perhaps this woeful lack of OS mime type support is saved by Windows vista.
>
> As an aside the current mime type system does not seem adequate to
> handle various markup formats, because there is no way (as far as I
> know, maybe something has been done in the past view years) to define
> a cascade of mime types, from least specific type to most specific.
>
> however text/xml is deprecated.
>
> MVH
> Bryan Rasmussen
> On 6/10/06, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Question #1
> >
> >
> >
> > In the list [1] of media types (MIME) it shows two different media types for
> > XML:
> >
> >
> >
> >     application/xml
> >
> >     text/xml
> >
> >
> >
> > What's the difference between these two?
> >
> >
> >
> > Question #2
> >
> >
> >
> > Consider this simple XML:
> >
> >
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >
> > <root>
> >
> >       Blah
> >
> > </root>
> >
> >
> >
> > Suppose I take this simple XML and put it into a MS Word document.  What's
> > its media type?  Is it:
> >
> >
> >
> >          application/msword, or
> >
> >          application/xml, or
> >
> >          text/xml?
> >
> >
> >
> > Suppose that I put it into a Notepad document.  Now what's its media type?
> > Is it:
> >
> >
> >
> >          text/plain, or
> >
> >          application/xml, or
> >
> >          text/xml?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Suppose that I put it into a Notepad document and then, using Winzip, I
> > compress it.  Now what's its media type? Is it:
> >
> >
> >
> >          application/zip, or
> >
> >          application/octet-stream, or
> >
> >          application/xml, or
> >
> >          text/xml?
> >
> >
> >
> > /Roger
> >
> >
> >
> > [1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/
> >
> >
>

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