A new Internet draft, available
here, was announced
today by Murata Makoto.
The draft, co-authored with Simon St. Laurent,
proposes the "application/xml" and "text/xml"
media types for use with XML.
It also proposes a scheme to achieve consistency
within
media types for
XML-based languages such as MathML or SVG.
Under the scheme, applications would be given
media types of the form "*/*-xml", e.g.
"image/svg-xml" or "application/rdf-xml". Some
comment is evidently expected by the authors on
this convention, as they invite readers to "throw
a rock on it" if they disagree!
The authors also introduce the
"application/xml-dtd" media type for DTDs.
(Simon St. Laurent is a contributing editor of
xmlhack)