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

[Laurent Romary]

I was somehow waiting for some kind of a clear voicing. But it seems  
there is a silent concensus and I would give you my green light to  
pursue on this with SIgfrid in the name of the council.
Thanks in advance,
Laurent


Le 8 déc. 09 à 15:52, David Sewell a écrit :

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________________
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>>> [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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