Re: Using CONNEG instead of MIME types for compound types & references

[Rick Jelliffe <ricko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Larry Masinter wrote:

> There are a number of situations where MIME types don't solve the
> problem for "content negotiation" because the XML bodies that are
> transferred will be compound objects that contain multiple kinds
> of markup. In such situations, having a "top level" type other
> than "application/xml" doesn't do any good, since there's no useful
> way to use MIME to describe the combination of elements that are
> contained within.

Let us solve the simple needs of transmitting a simple document 
before attempting to get multipart documents correct!  Divide and
conquer.  

The multipart problems (sending a document rather than an entity) are a 
black hole from which we may never return.  


Rick Jelliffe