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Simon, et al., On the other hand, the fact that DTD's exist obviates the need for xml MIME subtypes. text/xml is sufficiently expressive, and when not text/xxx will do. I mean its text/html, not sgml/html. The fact is, xml is text plain and simple. Jonathan Borden JABR Technology Corp. http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net > > At 11:26 AM 1/15/99 +1000, James Robertson wrote: > >Who decides which DTDs have sufficient merit/useage/stability/etc > >to warrant a registered subtype? > > > >It seems unrealistic to expect IETF to make those sort > >of decisions. > > > >Or, to rephrase again: > > > >If I write a new DTD for (say) classifying house bricks, > >to be used in the building industry, and I go to to the > >IETF, and say: > > > > Give me a registered subtype! > > > >What should they do and say? > > Same as they do for everyone else. See: > ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1590.txt > > for details, unless it's been revised since. It doesn't look too painful. > > Looking through my Netscape settings, it seems like the x- types are used > without too much concern. Unless you hit a naming conflict, registration > doesn't really matter. It doesn't seem like a large problem. 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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