RE: Complex XSL MIME Type

RFC 3023 section 8.24 says you should use application/xslt+xml, but not
until it has been registered. It hasn't been registered. It got caught
up in some complicated politics which I don't understand.

As always when there is no standard to fall back on, you are left to
make your own decisions. Using an unregistered MIME type is not
recommended, but I don't know of any alternative suggestions.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> Subject:  Complex XSL MIME Type 
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> 
> I know mime types were handled before, but I haven't seen one 
> about my question.
> 
> I'm 'designing' an API to access a product that can create 
> output of various formats: it creates PDF, PCL5,  XHTML, 
> XSL-FO, XSLT (that creates XSL-FO), XSLT (that creates 
> XHTML). To identify the type of output you want from the 
> product, I thought to use mime-types for all of these types. 
> I only have a problem with the last 3 types.
> 
> I read before in this list that I would have to choose 
> application/xsl+xml, but all of these last 3 types qualify 
> for that, and I need a unique identifier for all of them.
> 
> Should I go for:
> application/xslfo+xml
> application/xslt+xslfo+xml
> application/xslt+xhtml+xml
> 
> Or should I just not use mime to identify the output format?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
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