According to the official IANA listing of MIME types
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/media-types), there is no application/xhtml+xml.
However, there are a variety of XML MIME types, including
application/xml
application/xml-external-parsed-entity
application/xml-dtd
text/xml
text/xml-external-parsed-entity
Note that NONE of them relate to any specific application of XML. There
is no MIME type for DocBk, TEI-Light, XHTML, XSLT, etc.
XML defines two ways to determine the XML application: DOCTYPE and
namespaces. Using MIME types to identify XML applications is a
retrograde solution frought with problems.
Also, RFC3023, which defines text/xml and application/xml, describes the
difference between the two. It is not whether or not the file is "human
readable." The difference is whether or not the XML is encoded in a
character encoding that can be displayed with a typical text editor
(US-ASCII, etc.). For other encodings (the example given is UTF-16), use
applcation/xml.
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gervase Markham
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>Also, XHTML has its own mime type - application/xhtml+xml.
>>
>
> Strictly speaking, registering that type is work in progress. It's not
> official, yet.
>
>
