Re: [RSS-DEV] Correct sort of MIME type for other stuff?

[burton@openprivacy.org]

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"Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> Since things are marching along nicely with using application/rss+xml, how
> about a discussion on how to best use it for another format seen with some
> weblogs; UserLand's .opml format?  A discussion with Dave Winer indicates he's
> been favoring the using of "text/x-opml" for these files.  That sounds good to
> me but I'm no MIME type expert.  What's the consensus on using stuff with "x-"
> prefixing?  Can anyone chime in with some commentary on the whole rationale
> behind using text/ vs application/ and the x- prefixes?

There was a whole breakout on this discussion on rss-dev about 3 weeks ago..

- From what I know understand (though I don't understand all the rational just
yet) the standardized (RFC/W3C compliant) way to do this is:

application/opml+xml

> Oh and following along with things, the RSS feeds from Syndic8 now send the
> "application/rss+xml" content-type out.  We'd like to do the same with the
> .opml and the OCS stuff.

Sweet!

I think that Reptile doesn't do this just yet.  This will be fixed before we
deploy it....

Kevin

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