Media type (MIME) of XML in MS Word? in Notepad? when compressed? etc

["Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>]

Hi Folks,

 

Question #1

 

In the list [1] of media types (MIME) it shows two different media types for XML:

 

    application/xml

    text/xml

 

What’s the difference between these two?

 

Question #2

 

Consider this simple XML:

 

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<root>

      Blah

</root>

 

Suppose I take this simple XML and put it into a MS Word document.  What’s its media type?  Is it:

 

         application/msword, or

         application/xml, or

         text/xml?

 

Suppose that I put it into a Notepad document.  Now what’s its media type?  Is it:

 

         text/plain, or

         application/xml, or

         text/xml?

 

 

Suppose that I put it into a Notepad document and then, using Winzip, I compress it.  Now what’s its media type? Is it:

 

         application/zip, or

         application/octet-stream, or

         application/xml, or

         text/xml?

 

/Roger

 

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/