Re: MIME type for RELAX NG

John Cowan <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:15:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.relaxng.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robin Berjon scripsit:

> Allow me to turn this around: I would question why we not need a MIME 
> type for both RNG syntaxes. You may have no use for it, and I may have 
> limited (but existing) use for it, but you never know what users might 
> do with it. Media type registrations are cheap, better to have one not 
> used than to need one not done.

If there's a media-type and an associated .rnc extension, then Apache
config files will tend to associate .rnc with application/relax-ng-compact
or whatever it is.  Browsers will then pick up that media type, assume
they can't read the file, and punt to saving it.   This is annoying.

We had to stop using READ.ME instead of README because servers were
assuming it was troff -me text and browsers were not displaying it.

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