On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 08:16:16PM +0200, Henry Story wrote: > Here is a suggestion. APP should define no new mime types. XML can > just be served as application/xml if needed. If there is a need to > identify the type of object at the end of a relation new relation > types should be defined.
Except that... a different relation is semantically distinct to a different type. Sometimes new types are needed. > So if the reason for defining a new mime type is that people want to > define a > <link rel="alternate" type="applicaton/atom+serv"...> then instead > they should define a new relation > such as > > <link rel="categories" href="./cats/categories.xml"/> On the other hand, I'm not convinced I see the argument for making the application/atom+serv an alternate of anything that already exists. application/xml is a type only in the same way that text/* can be considered to be a type (except orthogonally, if you see what I mean). James -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ James Aylett xapian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] uncertaintydivision.org
