On 6/7/07, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
* Mark Baker wrote:
Disagree. For the vast majority of server configurations, ".xml" maps to one of those three types, and would therefore pretty much guarantee the mislabelling of many MusicXML files.
Using application/xml or text/xml for XML documents is no mislabeling; using text/plain or application/octet-stream on the other hand is, and most servers would use one of those types or some other incorrect type if they don't recognize the extension.
Well, the point is that if you had two HTTP messages with the same body, but one with application/vnd.recordare.musicxml+xml and the other with application/xml, those messages mean two different things. text/plain would mean something different than those two messages. Only with application/vnd.recordare.musicxml+xml is there an authoritative, publicly specified (self-descriptive) path from the HTTP message to the MusicXML specification, and therefore that's the only message that means "interpret this as MusicXML". Mark.