Re: Why is the file suffix of XML Schemas .xsd and not.xsd.xml

Roger,

Don't confuse the purpose and use of filename extensions with MIME types.  As a file creator and user, I have no problem understanding that a file with the extension ".xsd" means "this is a serialization of an XML Schema Definition file expressed as an XML document encoded in plain text".  I don't need (and would be severely annoyed about) structured extensions that captures all of that meta-information explicitly.

Besides, ".txt" is incredibly ambiguous! Perhaps ".txt.iso8859.en-en" would be even better.  Or how about ".xsd.xml.txt.uni.utf.016.en-us" to be really clear?  How far should one go to encode file metadata into the filename itself?

MIME types are designed for computers to read and "understand", so it's reasonable that they provide additional meta-information about content of a stream.

Hope this helps,
   Jim

Hi Folks,

An XML Schema document is an XML document, so why isn't the file suffix of XML Schema documents .xsd.xml? 

Example: Bookstore.xsd.xml

To take it a step further, an XML document is a text document, so why isn't the file suffix of an XML document .xml.txt? Thus an XML Schema document would have the file suffix .xsd.xml.txt to indicate that the document is (1) an XML Schema document, which is (2) an XML document, which is (3) a text document.

Likewise, why isn't the file suffix of an XSLT document .xsl.xml.txt?

It seems like that would have the advantage of showing with great clarity of type of file it is. Yes?

/Roger

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