[Zope] - Re: XML-RPC

[skip@calendar.com (Skip Montanaro)]

    Christopher> Why not use text/x-xml-rpc?  XML has a billion uses, that
    Christopher> honestly, it will eventually end up as: xml/rpc instead,
    Christopher> most likely :-)

    Christopher> What's the status of text/xml as a standard MIME type?

In reverse order:

I suppose text/xml is either already approved or well on its way to
approval.  It's too hot for the approval folks to ignore.

All text/xml says is that XML is the "syntax" of the message.  Interpreting
the semantics of the message is up to the receiver.  Everybody who thinks
it's okay to start annotating the media type with semantic information
should take a quick look at their local mime.types file.  Note that the
types there don't say anything about how to interpret the contents, just
what the format of the contents are.  There is an image/gif type which we
are all familiar with.  There are not image/gif-car, image/gif-naked-bodies
and image/gif-xy-plot types.  The media type of a request or a response is
just that, nothing more.

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