Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion

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> > It's a plausible risk only if HTTP 1.1 or other protocols are explicitly
> > reopened and modified.  Otherwise, it's pretty easy to point to the spec
> > and say "No.  That's forbidden."

> that's not the risk I'm referring to.  The risk I'm talking about is the
> risk that people will want to reopen and modify those protocols for such
> purposes, but they will be left without a clean way of doing so.

Again, by all means specify a "this is XML" content feature tag of some sort.
This solves the negotiation problem without the need to open up anything.

				Ned