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Re: Re: DocBook filename extension
- From: Steinar Bang <sb at dod dot no>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:46:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook filename extension
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>>>>> Brian Lalonde <brianiacus@yahoo.com>:
> When is a MIME type more useful than an extension?
As to "When", my answer is "always".
If the question had been "Why", my answer would have been that MIME
types (or Content Types) have a central registry, so that the
interpretation of the type is indepentent of applications, and
operating system environments.
There are more possible interpretations to ".doc" than MSWord files.