James Clark scripsit:
> However, "include" and
> "externalRef" seem to me to present a problem for this approach. They take
> URIs as arguments and dereferencing a URI gives me a entity containing a
> sequence of bytes.
In fact dereferencing a URI is generally understood (though I cannot
lay my hands on specific textual authority at the moment) to return a
MIME entity-body; that is, a sequence of bytes plus a media type.
Thus "http://www.w3.org" when dereferenced returns not only
21540 bytes (at present) but also the media type "text/html; charset=us-ascii".
The purpose of a media type is to provide just enough information to
allow the byte sequence to be deserialized into whatever form the
particular application demands.
> Thinking about this I was unclear what MIME type a RELAX NG schema in
> compact syntax should be sent as. Would it be text/something or
> application/something? Murata-san, any thoughts on this?
As Makoto says, we can do what we want, but IMHO the appropriate media
type for RNC is text/plain, the same that would be used for any
programming language. Programming-language texts are in general
meant to be human-readable, so text/* is appropriate, and they
contain in general no markup, which makes text/plain appropriate.
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