XHTML, XML, fancy text, and applications

[Dan Kohn]

>> As I have some programming background I think
>> application/xhtml|xml would have been much better and the pipe was
>> available in addition to the plus sign.

For historical curiosity, I'll mention that as a co-author of RFC 3023,
I was in favor of using the pipe | (e.g., application/xhtml|xml, which
was used in an earlier draft), but I was convinced by my co-authors that
it could be too easily confused with capital I and lowercase l in many
fonts.

I suspect it didn't really matter, and the delimiter is in any event now
firmly established as +.

          - dan
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