On Apr 23, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
* Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
What about media types that are not registered?
Register them! Other than that, if you don't know it's XML, don't
parse it as such. If you do know it's XML, parse it as such. But
really do register the type.
Let me clarify what I meant. You originally wrote:
It should say that implementations **use intrisinc knowledge
derived from
the media type registration** to determine whether or not the
type used to
label the entity body is an XML media type, persumably one that
is meant
to be used for complete document entities rather than other
entities as
those cannot yield in a Document.
[emphasis mine]
Should implementations be allowed or required to use intrinsic
knowledge from other sources than media type registration? For
example, suppose my user agent recognizes "image/svg-xml" or "text/
xsl". Should it then treat these as XML, even though they are
unregistered, and will likely never be registered?
Registering types is of course a good idea, but unrelated to the
point I was trying to make. I just wanted you to clarify whether you
intended "knowledge derived from the media type registration" to
limit this behavior solely to registered types.
Regards,
Maciej
