[ticker-dev] Ticker group "invitation" attachments

[Matthew Phillips]

David Arnold wrote:

>-->"Matthew" == Matthew Phillips <matthew.phillips at dsto.defence.gov.au> writes:
>
>  >> What's the MIME type of this format?
>
>  Matthew> I'm still suggesting "application/x-elvin-tickergroup".
>
>  >> text/xml+foo?  Does anyone understand the rules for XML-based
>  >> MIME?
>
>  Matthew> Of that I have no idea. XHTML is text/xml+html, but tacking
>  Matthew> the "xml+" seems like a hack to me (it implies there might
>  Matthew> be other ways to represent XHTML). In this case I'm
>  Matthew> proposing a One True XML Way for the group format, so
>  Matthew> whacking an xml in there seems a bit disingenuous.
>
>A quick google found me RFC-3023
>
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt
>
>See especially appendix A (and A.15) for a discussion of the rationale
>for the use of +xml
>  
>
Thanks for the reference. It's quite a tome - glad I don't have to think 
through all that guff ;) I think I understand the rationale behind +xml, 
but it does seem a little esoteric and, since I've cheekily gone ahead 
and implemented this in Sticker 3.1 beta 1 already, my natural instinct 
is to leave off the +xml ;)  I know I'm doing a Netscape here, but I 
really wanted to get the invite feature out to demonstrate to the real 
customers.

Matt.