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At 12:48 PM 12/3/98 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote: >Unless I've misunderstood something, a MIME type is still an indirection to >the definition of that MIME type. I.e., "text/xml" is a pointer to the RFC >that establishes that MIME type. But then a problem is: where do I got to >figure out what RFC a given MIME type maps to? What if the MIME type is an >"x-*" MIME type, what do I do then? And what if the notation in the XML/SGML document I've got on my computer references a proprietary standard or viewer that I don't have? Same useless data problem I had before... Maybe genuinely extensible viewing _software_ will get us past this thicket, but I don't think notations have any inherent advantages over MIME types beyond their being a superset, allowing them to reference even more lose-able resources. Simon St.Laurent XML: A Primer / Cookies Sharing Bandwidth (December) Building XML Applications (January) http://www.simonstl.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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