Re: [xml-dev] Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

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

Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit:

> We cannot learn, we can just be wise and use always application/* for
> I18N reasons until MIME is dead. Tim Berners-Lee recently suggested that
> URIs should be used for Content-Types. 

Actually, I've been pushing that idea for some time, and in fact such
URIs already exist.  The URI corresponding to media-type xxx/yyy
is simply http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/xxx/yyy
(there really is a file there!).

And it would be trivial to map the Content-Type properties to
the query part of the URI.

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