Media Types and Compound Documents
by
Mark Baker
Table of contents
Media Types and Compound Documents
What is a media type?
Layering and media types
Layering example
What was that?!
What (else) was that?!
Ok, but so what?
Current practice with */xml
So sayeth the spec
The Lesson
Are compound documents a new language?
My objective
Option 1; Media type dispatch
Option 2; Fix */xml
Option 3; XML namespace dispatch
Option 4; Namespace and media type hybrid
Other options?
Take-away