need advice on registration for YAML format

[Julian Reschke]

On 09.07.2010 19:15, Ned Freed wrote:
>> Hi,
>
>> currently there is no media type registered for YAML (see
>> <http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html>). I'd like to change that.
>
>> Two questions though:
>
>> 1) YAML is a text format, but it has hardwired character sets, similar
>> to application/json (detectable via the BOM). This means, it really
>> needs to be registered under application/*, right?
>
> Given that UTF-16 is being used, there really isn't an option - it has
> to go
> under application.

Agreed.

But: how did text/xml end up where it is? Or text/html?

> ...

Best regards, Julian