On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 21:47, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> wrote:
Our content does meet the requirements of RFC 4288 section 4.1, just not in compliance with RFC 2046.
So looks like the application/vnd.adobe.composite-asset is still the appropriate place for this type. Would you agree?
Yes, I'm in agreement with this assessment.
One (late) question: Is there no precedence for adding +zip for such composite formats? Compared this to say +xml for various XML-derived mimetypes like application/rdf+xml and image/svg+xml. Another example: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text is a structured ZIP-file, where META-INF/manifest.xml describes the mime-types of the content (and the uncompressed file mimetype shows the mimetype of the archive itself) We're thinking of being strongly inspired by the ODF archive format to make a container for Taverna workflows (by utillising org.odftoolkit.odfdom.pkg.OdfPackage). Currently I'm thinking to call this application/vnd.taverna.scufl2.research-object+zip - but if the precedence is to *not* include "+zip" we'll just drop the last bit. Any views on this..? Our META-INF/manifest.xml would contain something like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <manifest:manifest xmlns:manifest="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:manifest:1.0"> <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/vnd.taverna.scufl2.research-object+zip" manifest:full-path="/"/> <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/vnd.taverna.scufl2.workflow+xml" manifest:full-path="workflows/"/> <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="application/vnd.taverna.scufl2.workflow+xml" manifest:full-path="workflows/581af728-5e34-4369-96e3-316aa0a16b44.xml"/> <manifest:file-entry manifest:media-type="text/n3" manifest:full-path="workflows/581af728-5e34-4369-96e3-316aa0a16b44.n3"/> </manifest:manifest> (Next up for discussion: Which mime types to use in the the manifest for archived files - text/xml etc. or application-specific ones) -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester