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At 04:53 PM 5/17/00 -0400, David Megginson wrote: >Charles Wiltgen <lists@w...> writes: >> (Apologies if this is so simple to be a stupid question!) >> >> We're using XML in a couple ways in an application we're doing. Is the >> preferred convention to use .xml as the file suffix, or our own suffix >> depending on the flavor? > >There's nothing stupid about this question (unfortunately), because >browsers are already starting to look at XML-related extensions. For >example, if a file ends with .dtd, MSIE will assign it a MIME type of >text/xml (which means that it will not display because a DTD is not, >in itself, well-formed XML). > >If you want browsers to recognize your data as XML and try to display >it with a stylesheet, choose .xml; if not, choose something different. David's pretty much right, but for more details, you might want to take a look at: http://www.imc.org/draft-murata-xml It covers file extensions along with media types - .dtd, .ent, .mod, & etc. Simon St.Laurent XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed. Building XML Applications Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical Cookies / Sharing Bandwidth http://www.simonstl.com *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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