• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:08:45 +0000

>
> Well, I guess there's nothing wrong with registering it strictly to 
> deprecate it, since folks who use it are not likely to be those who 
> pay attention to registrations, anyway ;)
>
> But text/xsl, as we all know[1] runs afoul of the convention that 
> text/... formats be human readable.  Then again with text/html, the 
> beast has surely escaped the barn.
>

I thought there was another more technical reason for avoiding text/... 
- some theory that if it's text, the carrier is allowed to change its 
encoding, whereas if it's application/..., then it isn't.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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