Re: [xml-dev] Associating Style Sheets with XML documents 1.0 (SecondEdi

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

>
> Well, I guess there's nothing wrong with registering it strictly to 
> deprecate it, since folks who use it are not likely to be those who 
> pay attention to registrations, anyway ;)
>
> But text/xsl, as we all know[1] runs afoul of the convention that 
> text/... formats be human readable.  Then again with text/html, the 
> beast has surely escaped the barn.
>

I thought there was another more technical reason for avoiding text/... 
- some theory that if it's text, the carrier is allowed to change its 
encoding, whereas if it's application/..., then it isn't.

Michael Kay
Saxonica