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Roger, Don't confuse the purpose and use of filename extensions with
MIME types. As a file creator and user, I have no problem
understanding that a file with the extension ".xsd" means "this
is a serialization of an XML Schema Definition file expressed as
an XML document encoded in plain text". I don't need (and would
be severely annoyed about) structured extensions that captures
all of that meta-information explicitly. Besides, ".txt" is incredibly ambiguous! Perhaps
".txt.iso8859.en-en" would be even better. Or how about
".xsd.xml.txt.uni.utf.016.en-us" to be really clear? How far
should one go to encode file metadata into the filename itself? MIME types are designed for computers to read and
"understand", so it's reasonable that they provide additional
meta-information about content of a stream. Hope this helps, On 2019-10-03 05:07, Costello, Roger L.
wrote:
Hi Folks, An XML Schema document is an XML document, so why isn't the file suffix of XML Schema documents .xsd.xml? Example: Bookstore.xsd.xml To take it a step further, an XML document is a text document, so why isn't the file suffix of an XML document .xml.txt? Thus an XML Schema document would have the file suffix .xsd.xml.txt to indicate that the document is (1) an XML Schema document, which is (2) an XML document, which is (3) a text document. Likewise, why isn't the file suffix of an XSLT document .xsl.xml.txt? It seems like that would have the advantage of showing with great clarity of type of file it is. Yes? /Roger _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.oasis-2Dopen.org_mlmanage_&d=DwIFAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=XZCGspXHcGGtWTn7eKof7TvaFDMH0XrYJTrtCVTfaxk&m=x_ZP8pOuEqGZBagq5VgGVNou2ofnEWbZjcy_5TjNWWY&s=J-1qW6gUNtebA4ockKDb3pU35pCj1do25gQO3SeXVPQ&e= Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org List archive: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__lists.xml.org_archives_xml-2Ddev_&d=DwIFAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=XZCGspXHcGGtWTn7eKof7TvaFDMH0XrYJTrtCVTfaxk&m=x_ZP8pOuEqGZBagq5VgGVNou2ofnEWbZjcy_5TjNWWY&s=N_-lAZkmpxc7iSQ1bpYiR8xe4pSRHUOD7Z8aWiY9PlA&e= List Guidelines: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.oasis-2Dopen.org_maillists_guidelines.php&d=DwIFAg&c=RoP1YumCXCgaWHvlZYR8PZh8Bv7qIrMUB65eapI_JnE&r=XZCGspXHcGGtWTn7eKof7TvaFDMH0XrYJTrtCVTfaxk&m=x_ZP8pOuEqGZBagq5VgGVNou2ofnEWbZjcy_5TjNWWY&s=DgPePRJsQsBUTiTT1iYap7R-E7Hbanpxu_PzFHcPYpk&e= --
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