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Subject: Re: [office-comment] OpenDocument Draft 3: Use "application/xml" instead of "text/xml"
On Saturday 05 March 2005 19:06, Dave Hodder wrote: > Hello, > > Section 1.7 of OpenDocument 1.0 Committee Draft 3 states: "For office > documents that conform to this specification but are not contained in a > package, it is RECOMMENDED to use the MIME type text/xml." > > May I respectfully suggest that the "application/xml" MIME type is > mentioned instead? > > Although "text/xml" is a legal media type, the W3C recommends against > its use, and there's a good chance it will be depreciated in future. > (Over the web, anything advertised with text/* media types can be > transcoded by intermediate proxies, etc. which is potentially problematic.) This makes sense. However I don't see why non-packaged OpenDocument files ("flat xml") shouldn't use a real OASIS mimetype instead of text/xml or application/xml. After all we want to launch OpenDocument-aware applications (e.g. OOo or KOffice) when clicking on such files, not raw XML editors. -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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