* Chris Lilley wrote:
BH> Why does the charset parameter in the example above declare an encoding? BH> From http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/mimereg.html it should BH> be clear that the is no charset parameter and it thus cannot have such BH> semantics, so there is no inconsistency here.
You had not stated your example very carefully. I thought we were still talking about what the validator implements.
We are, you said the W3C Markup Validator does not need to be changed in order to comply with the proposed image/svg+xml registration which however states that [...] The encoding of an SVG document is determined by the XML encoding declaration. This has identical semantics to the application/xml media type in the case where the charset parameter is omitted, as specified in RFC3023 sections 8.9, 8.10 and 8.11. [...] which is inconsistent with the behavior of the W3C Markup Validator.
From the proposed registration it seems very clear that the behavior of the W3C Markup Validator is non-conforming, you say it is never- theless conforming which makes no sense to me.