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Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion

To: Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 15:00:27 -0500
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At 02:50 PM 3/20/00 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
>or to put it another way, if we're going to invent a new syntatical
>convention for describing content-type characteristics, let's 
>pick one that actually works with content negotiation 
>rather than one which requires drastic changes to content 
>negotiation frameworks.

I have yet to hear what those 'drastic changes' involve.  More details
would be greatly appreciated.

>and yet you just admitted that it would cause a problem if user agents 
>started requesting */*xml.

Yes, and I also said quite explicitly that user agents requesting */*xml is
not a feature of the proposal.  I don't believe it's useful to defend use
cases that we are not proposing.

Simon St.Laurent
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