• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@g...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:16:47 -0500

On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 12:28 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/#PA-type> says:
> 
> "Some unregistered (as of the publication of this specification) media 
> types, such as text/xsl, are well-supported by existing implementations, 
> whereas some registered media types, such as application/xslt+xml, are not."

[...]

> Maybe it's time to actually register text/xsl, stating what it is and 
> where it is needed?

It should be application/xsl+xml, and registration is in process:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#xslt-mime-definition

text/xsl, like text/xml, has problems to do with proxies that
convert between character sets, although I am not really
certain that such proxies really exist these days.

Liam


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