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

Well, the request doesn't come from me, but from some user. The MIME
type is indeed used by some systems to dispatch documents to the
applications, rather than applications sniffing for the namespace inside
the document. Actually, it does serve a different purpose, because it is
not necessary that the namespace of the top-level element characterizes
the document.

All the MIME type needs to do is give some general information, not an
exact manifest of the vocabularies used, AFAICS.

Cheers
Rick

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.
>
> How do you think it might help Rick?
>
> With the above logic it would seem a bit of a waste?
>
> regards
>
>
>

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