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• Subject: mime types and xml dialects
• From: "bryan" <bry@i...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:31:59 +0200
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• In-reply-to: <f5bbrtnvz08.fsf@e...>

Hi,

When returning a mime type of a resource, if that resource is a dialect
of xml then the more general type is text/xml but the more specific type
can be application/rdf+xml which in turn can be even more closely
specified as a subset of RDF.

Currently what I'm doing is returning text/xml for generic xml
documents, and application/rdf+xml for all dialects of rdf; what I'm
considering is the possibility of adding http headers that specify that
there is a range of mime types possible for a resource, and their
likelihood of being the best type for a resource. 

Anyone done anything with that, pointers to discussions, projects and
similar stuff in the past would be helpful.

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