Re: [xml-dev] Registration status

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

[re-send as original posting blocked on this list, please keep xml-dev
in the loop on any reply, David]

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>	Harold on Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:46:04 -0700)
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>There's been some thought about doing it but I think we're watching
>the progress of the html group's html+xml draft first. (speaking about
>MathML here)
>
>But personally the more I think about this, the less I like it, and see
>so little use for media types for XML languages. Except for test files
>MathML never lives on its own, it's always embedded in a larger document
>type, XHTML, DocBook, TEI, whatever. Since the same document might also
>have svg, you end up with application/xhtml+mathml+svg+xml and
>permutations of that. It seems unreasonable to expect any application to
>do anything with that and in practice a more workable alternative is to
>serve everything as application/xml and let the application key
>individual processing requirements off the namespaces contained in the
>document. (Actually my "home" isp will serve .xml files as text/xml with
>no possibility of changing that, but that's a different thread)
>
>David
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