Re: Meida types and stylesheet linking

[Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>]

MURATA Makoto wrote:
> 
> The XML Core WG of W3C recently announced an erratum for "Associating
> Style Sheets with XML documents Version 1.0".
> 
> http://www.w3.org/1999/06/REC-xml-stylesheet-19990629/errata
> -----------------------------------------------
>         Description: The pseudo-attribute "type" declared with type
>         CDATA #REQUIRED is mandatory.
> 
>         Correction: The declaration is changed to: type CDATA #IMPLIED
>         so that it is optional.
> 
>         Rationale: This pseudo-attribute is adopted from HTML 4.0, where
>         it is optional.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Suppose that a stylesheet-linking PI uses a fragment identifier
> (e.g., XPointer) so as to reference to an embedded stylesheet.  We
> are no longer forced to specify some media type.

But not prevented from doing so either. The media type is beingusxed as a
label. But it is not being used as a value for the Content-Type mail or
HTTP header, so is not assertingthatthe entire resource is of this type.

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Chris