>"Anne Thomas Manes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I indicated in an earlier response to this message, > I argue that the > qualified name of the root element in a SOAP Body > is a much more descriptive > self-description than a MIME type. > [...] > > The probelm with creating your own MIME types > is that standard web clients > don't know how to process them. One of the > main reasons why the Web works is > that MIME types are standardized, and all > web clients know what to do when > they get a JPEG in response to a GET.
But the web also works because browsers don't generally pay attention to mime-types preferring to sniff content (they do this because the majority of web content is borked). This is often overlooked by architects and seems to be universally ignored by XML types complaiend about malformed content. One of the drivers for HTML5 is to write down what browsers actually do with content. cheers Bill
