Media Types 'text/csv' and 'text/comma-separated-values'

Bruce Lilly blilly at erols.com
Sat Feb 5 22:06:23 CET 2005


On Thu February 3 2005 20:56, Martin Duerst wrote:
> Hello Yakov,
> 
> As far as I know, there is no convention that would force either
> text/comma-separated-values or text/cvs. My suggestion is to
> pick one, and have implementations converge on it. I'd personally
> prefer text/cvs, just because it's shorter.

On the other hand, "comma-separated-values" is meaningful,
whereas neither the originally-proposed "csv" nor Martin's
suggested "cvs" is; and that probably explains the transcription
error.


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