RE: [Fwd: text/xml for SOAP (and XP) considered harmful]

[Eric Newcomer <eric.newcomer@iona.com>]

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-----Original Message-----
From: christopher ferris [mailto:chris.ferris@east.sun.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:32 AM
To: ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org
Subject: [Fwd: text/xml for SOAP (and XP) considered harmful]

>From the xml-dist-app list. We should track this so that
the final draft of the MS spec might normatively reference
the RFC rather than the IETF draft.

Cheers,

Chris

mmurata@trl.ibm.co.jp wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I am writing as a co-author of an upcoming Proposed Standard
> RFC for XML media types.  It is in the RFC editor's queue.
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/queue.html
>
> SOAP uses "text/xml".  But it should use "application/xml".
> "text/xml" is appropriate only when the XML document is
> readable by casual users (not programmers).    More about
> this issue, see the latest I-D as below:
>
> http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-murata-xml-09.txt
>
> Best,
>
> IBM Tokyo Research Lab / International University of Japan, Research
Institute
> MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)