Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03

[Chris Lilley]

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A new version of I-D, draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03.txt has been successfuly submitted by Chris Lilley and posted to the IETF repository.

Filename:        draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml
Revision:        03
Title:           XML Media Types
Creation_date:   2009-09-24
WG ID:           Independent Submission
Number_of_pages: 49

Abstract:
This document standardizes three media types -- application/xml,
application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd --
for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) while deprecating text/xml and text/
xml-external-parsed-entity.  This document also standardizes a
convention (using the suffix '+xml') for naming media types outside
of these five types when those media types represent XML MIME
entities.  XML MIME entities are currently exchanged via the
HyperText Transfer Protocol on the World Wide Web, are an integral
part of the WebDAV protocol for remote web authoring, and are
expected to have utility in many domains.

Major differences from [RFC3023] are deprecation of text/xml and
text/xml-external-parsed-entity, the addition of XPointer and XML
Base as fragment identifiers and base URIs, respectively, mention of
the XPointer Registry, and updating of many references.
                                                                                 


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 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
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 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

[Chris Lilley]

On Thursday, September 24, 2009, 6:07:45 PM, Chris wrote:

CL> A new version of I-D, draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03.txt has
CL> been successfuly submitted by Chris Lilley and posted to the IETF repository.

An HTML version of the draft may be seen at
http://www.w3.org/2006/02/son-of-3023/draft-murata-kohn-lilley-xml-03.html

This draft incorporates the TAG finding

Bray, T., Ed., “Internet Media Type registration, consistency of use,” April 2004.


which also brings advice on the use of the charset parameter into line with current practice. In brief, the charset parameter should only be added if it agrees with the xml encoding declaration. In the absence of an explicit charset parameter, the encoding specified by the xml encoding declaration is used. (This is a change from RFC 3023, which required enforcing us-ascii in that case).

The only difference between todays draft-03 and the draft-02 of 31 July this year is that draft-03 clarifies that the specification applies to all editions of XML 1.0 (first to fifth edition) and XML 1.1. The syntax of the xml encoding declaration is the same (bar minor clarifications) in all editions. Thanks to Henry Thompson for help with that.

Once promoted to an RFC, this specification will obsolete RFC 3023.


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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@...
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG