• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:34:41 +0100

On 10/09/2012 12:22, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> When I drag and drop an XML document (i.e., a file with the suffix .xml) into my browser, my browser recognizes it as an XML document and processes it accordingly. If the XML document has a stylesheet PI, then the browser styles the XML document using the stylesheet.
>
> When I drag and drop an XML Schema document (i.e., a file with the suffix .xsd) into my browser, my browser informs me that it doesn't recognize the file type.
>
> When I dereference this URL:
>
> http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd
>
>   (which appears to be a URL to an XML Schema document) my browser processes it like an XML document.
>
> Why does my browser treat the XML Schema document at that URL as an XML document?
>
> /Roger





If reading from the filesystem the browser relies on your local 
association of extensions to mime types (and its own default rules)

If reading via http the server specifies the mime type in the http 
header which is sent before the file contents


that file has the header which reports:


Length: 8836 (8.6K) [application/xml]



David





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  • Why does my browser treat the XML Schema document at a URL as anXML document?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>