On 9/13/12 1:26 PM, Dan Stillman wrote:
While we're on the subject, though, we should agree on a different
content type for .csl files. Among other things, Safari (and possibly
other browsers) will display "text/*" types rather than downloading
them.* "x-" is also considered bad practice these days.
application/vnd.citationstyles.style? Zotero is using
application/vnd.citationstyles.csl+json for CSL JSON data.
It could also be application/vnd.citationstyles.style+xml, since RFC3023
recommends the use of "+xml" for XML-based media types. I don't think
there's much to be gained from that, but there's also no particular
reason not to do it.
From http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt:
A.15 Why must I use the '+xml' suffix for my new XML-based media type?
You don't have to, but unless you have a good reason to explicitly
disallow generic XML processing, you should use the suffix so as not
to curtail the options of future users and developers.
Whether the inventors of a media type, today, design it for dispatch
to generic XML processing machinery (and most won't) is not the
critical issue. The core notion is that the knowledge that some
media type happens to use XML syntax opens the door to unanticipated
kinds of processing beyond those envisioned by its inventors, and on
this basis identifying such encoding is a good and useful thing.
Developers of new media types are often tightly focused on a
particular type of processing that meets current needs. But there is
no need to rule out generic processing as well, which could make your
media type more valuable over time. It is believed that registering
with the '+xml' suffix will cause no interoperability problems
whatsoever, while it may enable significant new functionality and
interoperability now and in the future. So, the conservative
approach is to include the '+xml' suffix.
I don't have a strong preference here.
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