MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format
Chris Lilley
chris at w3.org
Fri May 18 03:12:09 CEST 2007
On Thursday, May 17, 2007, 9:17:50 PM, Larry wrote:
LM> I believe the +xml suffix should be reserved for media types whose content
LM> can be
LM> parsed without any preprocessing by a generic XML parser. A reply
LM> from David Singer indicated that the proposed MPEG 21file format is "binary
LM> and contains within it either XML text or BiM-encoded XML (like a ZIP
LM> archive
LM> with an XML document as the main document.)"
LM> In that case, the use of +xml would (IMO) be inappropriate.
I agree.
LM> I thought this was clear form RFC 3023, but perhaps not.
The successor to RFC 3023 needs to indicate that binary XML which is presented as a new encoding (in the xml sense) can use +xml, while other binary forms cannot.
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Chris Lilley mailto:chris at w3.org
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Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
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Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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