If we don't want Atom to be processed by "generic XML processors and technologies" and dispatched accordingly, then the correct course of action would be to choose a media type without the "+xml" suffix. I still don't see how this relates to atom:info.
Robert Sayre
Mark Nottingham wrote:
RFC 3023, Section 7:
This document recommends the use of a naming convention (a suffix of '+xml') for identifying XML-based MIME media types, whatever their particular content may represent. This allows the use of generic XML processors and technologies on a wide variety of different XML document types at a minimum cost, using existing frameworks for media type registration.
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Some areas where 'generic' processing is useful include:
o Browsing - An XML browser can display any XML document with a provided [CSS] or [XSLT] style sheet, whatever the vocabulary of that document.
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This convention will allow applications that can process XML generically to detect that the MIME entity is supposed to be an XML document, verify this assumption by invoking some XML processor, and then process the XML document accordingly.
