Re: The role of media types for XML content

Mark,

Mark> I agree with your premise that a new media type for each new XML
Mark> vocabulary is not a scalable, long-term solution.  But neither do I
Mark> think that application/xml is a solution.  

Here we agree.  (I suppose you meant application/xml combined with namespace
sniffing.)

Mark> The work being done in the
Mark> CDF WG may provide one, 

I think that a long-term solution is badly needed and 
that it is likely to be different from media types.

Mark> but for now though, I agree with Liam and
Mark> Martin that a new media type makes the most sense.

Here we do not agree.  I think that the advantages of specialized 
media types are rather minor.  I am not aware of any complaints 
about the lack of specialized media types for W3C XML Schema.

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto <[email protected]>