* 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. You would have a point if you'd say it is easier to configure typical servers to use the proposed type if the documents use a dedicated extension, but you have to weight the benefit of that against the very high risk of actual mislabeling. It'd be worse if legacy applications do not support the "official" exten- sion, but use .xml instead, which is very likely. So, no, there is no actual need for a dedicated extension. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/