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

[Laurent Romary]

This seems wise to me.

David Sewell <dsewell at virginia.edu> a écrit :

> 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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