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Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376

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Subject: Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376
From: MURATA Makoto <muraw3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:46:05 +0900
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In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
Rick Jelliffe wrote...
 >Please let us stick with the rationale for having text/xml and
 >application/xml in the first place: the former would be useful
 >in all the cases where transcoding/newline-fiddling/defaulting-to-
 >text-viewer was useful and the latter was useful when we want to
 >prevent trancoding/newline-fiddling/defaulting-to-text-viewer.

No.  Application/xml was introduced since some XML is not 
readable for casual users.  As Ned Freed pointed out long time ago, 
text/* is inappropriate for something unreadable for casual users.

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MURATA Makoto  muraw3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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