[tei-council] [TEI-L] application/tei+xml -- again (fwd)

[David Sewell]

If there is no followup from the user community within a reasonable 
time, say the end of next week, to the request for justification I 
posted on TEI-L the other day, I suggest we stamp the feature request 
"Denied" for the time being.

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, James Cummings wrote:

>
> I think I'm with Dan and Peter here.  I don't see that it benefits us
> much... if people want to fetch the TEI-C stylesheets on loading a
> document, there is already a method to do this recognised by most
> browsers (stylesheet processing instruction). As 'Internet Media Types'
> tend to define things like 'xml', 'pdf', 'ogg', 'javascript', and such,
> I think I'm bothered by the fact that TEI is, since P4 at least, XML.
> But yes, I guess if we did it then application/tei+xml is the right
> form. But I just keep doubting that TEI is an application media type,
> rather than just an instance of one of the existing ones (xml).
>
> -James
>
> Daniel Paul O'Donnell wrote:
>> This is my (relatively uninformed question as well). Is XML as mime type
>> not sufficient? What would be gained by cluttering things up?
>>
>> pboot wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:43:39 +0200, Laurent Romary
>>> <laurent.romary at loria.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there a concensus about this in the council? (yes/no)
>>>>
>>> I can't say that the earlier thread offers very convincing arguments. What
>>> is a browser supposed to do with the information? Fetch Sebastian's
>>> stylesheets?
>>>
>>> Peter
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