Review requested for MusicXML media type proposals

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Mark Baker wrote:
>Disagree. For the vast majority of server configurations, ".xml" maps
>to one of those three types, and would therefore pretty much guarantee
>the mislabelling of many MusicXML files.

Using application/xml or text/xml for XML documents is no mislabeling;
using text/plain or application/octet-stream on the other hand is, and
most servers would use one of those types or some other incorrect type
if they don't recognize the extension. You would have a point if you'd
say it is easier to configure typical servers to use the proposed type
if the documents use a dedicated extension, but you have to weight the
benefit of that against the very high risk of actual mislabeling. It'd
be worse if legacy applications do not support the "official" exten-
sion, but use .xml instead, which is very likely. So, no, there is no
actual need for a dedicated extension.
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