This is the mail archive of the
xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
mailing list .
Re: Coordination of script in XHTML, SVG, and XSLT 1.1 (aka RDDLas a delivery vehicle...)
- To: derhoermi at gmx dot net (Bjoern Hoehrmann), Curt Arnold <carnold at houston dot rr dot com>
- Subject: [xsl] Re: Coordination of script in XHTML, SVG, and XSLT 1.1 (aka RDDLas a delivery vehicle...)
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 07:58:15 -0500
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com, www-svg at w3 dot org, www-html at w3 dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103032215070.18625-100000@clarkevans.com><3AA1C245.74D0D977@jclark.com> <3AA1EE5C.90403@houston.rr.com><3av3at0229dqiitdikni11ucbc11fg62c3@4ax.com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
At 10:00 AM +0100 3/4/01, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>Current implementations use a type attribute to identify the used
>language. This attribute takes a valid MIME type. One major problem is,
>that _there are no MIME types_ registered for common scripting
>languages. I tried to change that and contacted several entities asking
>for help. I had no success:
>
This is not as big a problem as you make out. Although standard types
like text/javascript or application/vbscript would be a win, there
are multiple options:
1. Start an RFC to define these types ourselves.
2. Use vendor types like application/vnd.w3c.javascript
3. Use x-types like x-script/x-javascript
If using MIME media types to identify scripting languages is a good
idea (and I think it is) then registering an appropriate type is not
that hard. RFC 3023, XML Media Types,
<http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3023.html>, was put together by a an
informal group of interested individuals. It was not pushed by the
W3C.
--
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer |
+-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
| The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) |
| http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ |
| http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ |
| Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ |
+----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list