Re: DIME Use Case?

Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:26:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dime
Message-ID <49871416.1018851985@localhost>
--On 2002-04-14 13.53 -0700 Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> MIME is created for the same thing DIME is.
>
> Nope, DIME is explicitly not designed to be an open-ended description
> format. You can profile MIME as much as you like, it is still an
> open-ended description format and very successful at that.

No.

> It is
> absolutely not the intent of DIME to change the usage of MIME at all but
> rather to provide a simple wrapper.

And I don't agree DIME is simpler than a profile of MIME. I have so far not
seen any explanation what is meant by "simpler". Just the claim.

   paf