A document describing the handling of XML Media Types -- first
reported in xmlhack in a September 1999 story -- has been, as another xmlhack story
describes it, "painstakingly steered through the narrow waters
between the IETF and W3C," to official release by the Internet Engineering
Task Force as a new Request for Comments, RFC
3023.
Now available in all online RFC libraries, RFC 3023 --
coauthored by MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given),
xmlhack contributing editor Simon St.Laurent, and Dan Kohn --
describes a set of content-type identifiers for facilitating
exchange of XML content over the Internet:
- text/xml
- application/xml
- text/xml-external-parsed-entity
- application/xml-external-parsed-entity
- application/xml-dtd
The document also describes the +xml extension
suffix, which developers can use to identify new XML-based
formats they create.
RFC 3023 joins a list of more than 3000
Internet-related RFCs
that have been published by the IETF, dating back to 1969. For a
concise, insightful description of RFCs in general (and contrasted
with other standards efforts), read the RFC entry from FOLDOC.
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