xml-dev - Re: XML media types revisited

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> Your arbitrary level proposal is quite reasonable, though I suspect that
> that would require considerably more development (through the full IETF
> process) than just adding a new top-level type.

Either way requires a standards-track RFC.  The trouble is that
XML just isn't a content type analogous to "text", "video", "image",
"audio", "model", etc: it's a format, or rather a metaformat.
Content-types are supposed to be named based on what they are good
for, rather than what the details of the internal format are.

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