>
> Well, I guess there's nothing wrong with registering it strictly to
> deprecate it, since folks who use it are not likely to be those who
> pay attention to registrations, anyway ;)
>
> But text/xsl, as we all know[1] runs afoul of the convention that
> text/... formats be human readable. Then again with text/html, the
> beast has surely escaped the barn.
>
I thought there was another more technical reason for avoiding text/...
- some theory that if it's text, the carrier is allowed to change its
encoding, whereas if it's application/..., then it isn't.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
