RE: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

I fully agree with Larry's interpretation of RFC 3023 and his
comment on this proposal. "is XML" and "contains XML" are
two different things, and the "+xml" suffix is only for
the "is XML" case.

Regards,    Martin.

At 04:17 07/05/18, Larry Masinter wrote:
>I believe the +xml suffix should be reserved for media types whose content
>can be
>parsed without any preprocessing by a generic XML parser. A reply
>from David Singer indicated that the proposed MPEG 21file format is "binary
>and contains within it either XML text or BiM-encoded XML (like a ZIP
>archive
>with an XML document as the main document.)"
>
>In that case, the use of +xml would (IMO) be inappropriate.
>
>I thought this was clear form RFC 3023, but perhaps not.
>
>Larry


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