[tei-council] Mime types and "Mandatory when applicable"?

[Stuart A. Yeates]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Martin Holmes <mholmes at uvic.ca> wrote:
> Personally, I think for @mimeType we perhaps need a formulation along
> the lines of:
>
> "Use of this attribute is recommended in any case where the mime type of
> the target resource can be reliably determined. In some cases (such as
> the case of some XML fragments), it may not be possible to determine a
> mime type."

Maybe expand slightly to cover the increasing use of content-negotiation?

"Use of this attribute is recommended in any case where the target resource
has a single mime type that can be reliably determined. In some cases (such
as the case of some XML fragments), it may not be possible to determine a
mime type."

cheers
stuart