RE: [uddi-spec] XPointer change in WSDL BP

[Ugo Corda <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>]

John,

I am not sure what you mean by "inherit" (I am not aware of any inheriting
mechanism in MIME). If you mean that text/xml would be the most reasonable
type if no other registration existed, I disagree. Text/xml should be
reserved for XML documents readable by a "casual user", while
application/xml should be applied to documents intended for machine
processing (which I think is the case for WSDL). That also explains why we
have application/soap+xml and not text/soap+xml.

Ugo

-----Original Message-----
From: John Colgrave [mailto:colgrave@hursley.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:21 AM
To: Ugo Corda; uddi-spec
Subject: Re: [uddi-spec] XPointer change in WSDL BP


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ugo Corda" <UCorda@SeeBeyond.com>
To: "'John Colgrave'" <colgrave@hursley.ibm.com>; "uddi-spec"
<uddi-spec@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:00 PM
Subject: RE: [uddi-spec] XPointer change in WSDL BP


> >The media type of WSDL resources is text/xml (this is inherited from XML
in
> general).
>
> Actually a MIME type for WSDL has not been registered yet (see the Web
> Services Description Requirements draft at [1], Requirement R124). A
> possibility is application/wsdl+xml, patterned after application/soap+xml
> (see the Internet Draft at [2]).

Ugo,

I know that a specific media type for WSDL has not (yet) been registered,
that is why I said it inherited the general XML type.

John