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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:44:11 -0500
W. Eliot Kimber scripsit:
> So in that sense, the MIME type is redundant for any data type that is
> already self describing (e.g., XML, SGML, most graphic formats, VRML,
> etc.). Hmmm.
Almost. The MIME type gives you *some* information about the
document even if you do not understand its type fully. For
example, something labeled "text/xml" is known to be text,
even if your application has never heard of XML. As such, it
has certain properties that can be relied on.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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