Re: Requiring charset parameter on +xml types?

Rick Jelliffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.xml-mime
Message-ID <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010151503140.10613-100000@gate>
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 [email protected] wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> > - For text/html+xml (and that would work for all types, actually),
> >    beef up the servers so that they can use the information in the
> >    file to set the charset parameter correctly.
> 
> Matt Sergeant has already implemented a Perl module "Apache::MimeXML".  
> Let's encourage such implementation efforts!

But not by making it a requirement.  Get the implementations universally
deployed first.  Otherwise clients will be written expecting something
that that cannot be provided: don't create interoperability problems!

Rick Jelliffe
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