Re: [xml-dev] An XML document is an information resource (series ofoctet

[Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@allette.com.au>]

I think that sentence is saying something slightly different.

It is saying "the specification for JSON that this RFC uses is the RFC for MIME media type application/json", i.e. RFC 4627 and successors.   See   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4627.html

The specification for application/xml is  RFC 7303 and successors. See https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7303/   Unlike with JSON, this specification does not define XML per se but refers back to W3C XML 1.0 (FifthEdition).

Regards

Rick

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:36 PM Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

Hi Folks,

This document [1] defines JSON documents this way:

A JSON document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/json media type.

Would it be correct to define XML documents in an analogous way:

An XML document is an information resource (series of octets) described by the application/xml media type.

Two More Questions:

1. What is an "information resource"?

2. The parenthetical remark seems to imply that an information resource is a "series of octets". Is an information resource a series of octets?

/Roger

[1] https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/json-schema-core.html#name-json-document

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