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Re: Mime type for compound document.

• From: "Mark Baker" <mark@c...>
• To: "Stephen Green" <stephengreenubl@g...>
• Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:19:13 -0500

On 12/6/07, Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@g...> wrote:
> Is it the case then that every time someone creates a new namespace
> they have to create a new MIME type to go with it?!

On 12/6/07, Stephen Green <stephengreenubl@g...> wrote:
> Hi Dave
>
> Forgive my rant but it has perplexed me for some time why folk
> insist on creating more and more MIME types which few systems will
> recognize so this is more a quey than an answer of course. But here
> goes:
>
> Is it the case then that every time someone creates a new namespace
> they have to create a new MIME type to go with it?!

Not necessarily a new namespace, but every new language should have a
new media type, yes.

I gave a presentation to the W3C CDF WG a while back that might help
shed some light on the subject;

http://www.markbaker.ca/Talks/2004-media-types-and-compdocs/slide1-0.html

Mark.
-- 
Mark Baker.  Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.         http://www.markbaker.ca
Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies  http://www.coactus.com

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