Re: Content Type for XML Objects

[pgut001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Gutmann)]

Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>I have received a request to assign an Object Identifier (OID) to be used as
>a content type for XML objects.  The idea is that one would look inside the
>XML object to determine  the type of XML object that is being carried inside
>CMS.
>
>Is this the right thing to do?

One part of me wants to say "What makes XML so special that it should get its
own content-type?".  However if this is an attempt to clean up the XMLdsig
mess then I'm all for it.

>Would it be better to have a different content type for each XML object?
>
>Would it be better to use id-data?

Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris.  Have one overall XML content-type and then
let the XML layer sort out what's actually in there.

Peter.