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

Alex Brown said:
>
> I believe the consensus was that MIME types were not "good enough" for
> much in DSDL, but that if a certain constituency of users wanted them,
> we would deliver. I do not believe we should attempt to make the MIME
> type indicate the language binding of the Schematron "resource", or
> indeed indicate any details of its inner semantics ...

There are systems that use the MIME type to dispatch to a handler
application. This avoids having to open up the file. When the handler is a
Schematron processor, it will check sch:schema/@queryBinding to see if
it ca handle that type.

Murata-sensei is correct that this is not good enough, by itself to handle
where there are multiple alternative independent potential handlers for a
given type. As with text/plain, it is application dependent.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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