Application dispatch for application/xml
Mark Baker <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:26:56 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.xml-mime |
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Greetings, In preparation for a 3023 revision, I've taken it upon myself to examine how various agents dispatch applications for documents described with the application/xml media type. I'm currently considering the impact of XML namespaces and xml-stylesheet declarations. See; http://www.markbaker.ca/2004/01/XmlDispatchTest/ My intent is to revise this paragraph from section 3 of RFC 3023; An XML document labeled as text/xml or application/xml might contain namespace declarations, stylesheet-linking processing instructions (PIs), schema information, or other declarations that might be used to suggest how the document is to be processed. For example, a document might have the XHTML namespace and a reference to a CSS stylesheet. Such a document might be handled by applications that would use this information to dispatch the document for appropriate processing. If anybody knows of any browser or agent which dispatches applications based upon information other than the namespace or stylesheet, I'd love to hear about it. Also, if you feel that the tests I've set up don't properly cover the namespace/stylesheet-dispatch space, or are otherwise deficient, I'd like to hear that too. In fact, any and all feedback is appreciated, including more test results from other browsers and non-browser agents. Thanks. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca