MIME types and file extensions for XML

[Robin Cover]

Re: what Simon St.Laurent said

> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 98 13:50:55 UT
> From: "Simon St.Laurent" <SimonStL at classic.msn.com>
> Message-Id: <UPMAIL17.199806071349590087 at classic.msn.com>
> To: "Xml-Dev (E-mail)" <xml-dev at ic.ac.uk>
> Subject: MIME types and file extensions for XML (was XSchema Question 5)
> 
> I remember that earlier on the list, there was a discussion of MIME
> types and XML, and I think the general consensus was that XML should
> use "application/xml" and not "text/xml".
...
> Is there any discussion, a NOTE or something, that I can reference for 
> guidelines on XML MIME types and/or file extensions?  

Try:

  http://www.sil.org/sgml/xml.html#xmlMediaTypes   - XML Media/MIME Types

and more generally:

  http://www.sil.org/sgml/gen-apps.html#mime   -  MIME-SGML

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