Re: MIME Type for XSL

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
>   text/xsl
>   or
>   text/xml
> 
> text/xsl has never been registered (although it was used in some
> examples in various documents, and it works in IE)
> 
> following the new house style for xml releated mime types it's _supposed_
> to be text/xslt+xml but

per rfc 3023, use of 'text' media type is less than favorable. if the intent
is to process the xsl and not just view it, or unless some other encoding
related conditions are met, application/xslt+xml is preferable.

of course, using this today has the downside that web browsers / OSes treat
unrecognized subtypes of 'application' with great caution and don't easily
give you the option of saying "from here on out, treat this the same way you
treat text/xsl".

> text/xml
> 
> is also correct (as xslt is XML) and has the benefit of working in
> IE Mozilla and netscape, so I'd use text/xml.

i'd underscore the fact that there's a clear difference between 
what is correct and what works in these applications... "works"
in the sense that the applications behave the way you're intending.

the original poster will have to decide whether to do what's correct
or just do what works. it's like HTML in the Netscape's heyday...

-mike

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