[dsdl-comment] Re: Request for MIME media types

(RETRY; first attempt bounced)

At 2007-12-04 14:22 +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
>On 04/12/2007, MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp> wrote:
> A schematron
> > schema can be embedded within NVDL scripts, RELAX NG schemas,
> > W3C XML Schema schemas, XProc scripts, and so forth. Media types
> > do not work very well for such compound documents.
>
>And considering that such 'compound' documents are becoming
>so common (xhtml+mathml+svg etc), I'm surprised this hasn't
>come up more often in xml lists.

Hasn't this issue been around since 1999? I recall the tension
between the "Internet guys" who believe the MIME type should reveal
everything without the need to look inside (so
"application/schematron+xml" or "application/xslt+xml" is necessary)
and the "XML guys" who believe that XML already has identification
built in with namespaces when you look inside (so "text/xml" is sufficient).

I don't believe this was every resolved or could be resolved because
of the intractable positions of those who do not want to look inside
of the file and those who don't mind doing so.

Given that the Internet perspective satisfies both those who don't
look inside and those who do, perhaps that is the one we should put
forward, so "application/schematron+xml".

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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