[tei-council] [TEI-L] SV: TEI MIME type (fwd)

David Sewell dsewell at virginia.edu
Tue Dec 8 09:52:48 EST 2009


Did we ever take further action on this? Laurent, if you didn't contact
Sigfrid I can volunteer to do that (unless you want to).

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:

> There seem to be a shift of opinion on this. May I ask whether there are
> strong disagreements that have not been expressed so far, and if not (let's
> say by the end of the week) do like David suggests here.
> Decision would be (if I understood correctly): go for a application/tei+xml
> application
> Laurent
>
> Le 24 nov. 09 à 17:20, David Sewell a écrit :
>
> > Technically our Feature Request is still open:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2856036&group_id=106328&atid=644065
> >
> > Sigfrid made a stronger case in his recent email to TEI-L for
> > registering application/tei+xml than he had previously. Do we want to
> > revisit our decision not to pursue registration?
> >
> > If so, I would suggest that we ask Sigfrid to supply us with the
> > information he thinks we would need to complete the IANA application (as
> > he seems to be familiar with the process), namely
> >
> > http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl
> >
> > and then we could decide who to authorize as the "Author" of the
> > application.
> >
> > David
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:05:26 +0100
> > From: Sigfrid Lundberg <slu at KB.DK>
> > To: TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu
> > Subject: [TEI-L] SV: TEI MIME type
> >
> > The docbook mime type is documented in an internet draft
> >
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-walsh-app-docbook-xml-00
> >
> > it expired a year or so ago. Don't know why it wasn't renewed. Perhaps the
> > work with XProc and Calabash too much time.
> >
> > In general, an XML application is a document format defined using XML as
> > opposed to applications that are processing XML documents which are xml
> > processors. In my view TEI is an XML application. Mime types for XML
> > applications are described in RFC3023 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023),
> > which clearly states that mime types like
> >
> > application/mathml+xml
> >
> > is the preferred form. There are also a discussion of this in the
> > recommendation from the W3C "Architecture of the World Wide Web"
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#xml-media-types)
> >
> > These practices are now very much integrated in the REST design patterns for
> > web applications. I'd like to take a few examples:
> >
> > One could imagine that someone would like to publish TEI documents using the
> > atom publishing protocol. That is explicitely prohibited for other text/*
> > mime types except text/html. XML documents published using this protocol
> > must be application/*+xml.
> >
> > Consider the situation that we have the same content available through a
> > REST web service, where the representation is chosen through the accept http
> > header, then what if there are more than one XML representation, should TEI
> > then use text/xml and docbook application/docbook+xml? Well, one could live
> > with that, but harvesters that where not prepared for this in advance
> > couldn't.
> >
> > The TEI community is really good at XML, but a registered
> > applicaiton/tei+xml would demonstrate to the world that we regard ourselves
> > as a part of the Wordwide web as well.
> >
> > Yours
> >
> > Sigfrid
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > Fra: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list
> > [TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu] P&#229; vegne af Lou Burnard
> > [lou.burnard at OUCS.OX.AC.UK]
> > Sendt: 21. november 2009 18:34
> > Til: TEI-L at listserv.brown.edu
> > Emne: Re: TEI MIME type
> >
> > Council discussed this recently, and reached the conclusion that there
> > was no advantage (or indeed much sense) in registering a TEI-specific
> > MIME type. It's XML all the way down; not an application as such.
> >
> > Piotr Bański wrote:
> > > Is there one?
> > >
> > > Docbook claims to have "application/docbook+xml", but I can't find it at
> > > IANA:
> > >
> > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/
> > >
> > > So I'm not sure whether the absence of application/tei+xml or
> > > text/tei+xml or whatever ("tei-p5+xml"?) at IANA means that the TEI's
> > > type is not registered or maybe merely not listed there.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Piotr
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>

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