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Thanks very much Rick, In message <199709141028.UAA14599@j...> "Rick Jelliffe" writes: [...] > The standard way to stick a MIME type into a system identifier is > given as part of HyTime '97. First we have a notation declaration > (which is really only for documentation, so you don't need it > if you don't want it). > > <!NOTATION mimetype PUBLIC "-//IETF/RFC1521//NOTATION > FSISM PORTABLE > MIME Content Type//EN"><!-- Refer RFC 1700 --> Being picky, this is not valid XML since prod [74] requires a SystemLiteral as well as the PubidLiteral. > > This notation declaration allows us to use "mimetype" in > Formal System Identifiers, which are system identifiers with > little pseudo-start tags giving the notation used in the rest > of the string. So we can then declare the notation "gif" > to be the mime type "image/gif" by > > <!NOTATION gif SYSTEM "<mimetype>Content-Type=image/gif"> This is fine for my purposes, but I'm not clear how it fits with the XML spec. 4.3.2 says: 'The SystemLiteral that follows the keyword SYSTEM [...] is a URL, ...' It says nothing about SystemLiterals which follow the PubidLiteral (your example is clearly not a URL). So my reading of the XML spec is that your code above is invalid XML :-). If so, it would be useful if the WG had some way that it was allowed. [...] P. -- Peter Murray-Rust, domestic net connection Virtual School of Molecular Sciences http://www.vsms.nottingham.ac.uk/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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