MIME Type for XSL

[Alexander Voropay]

Hi!

1) Does anyone know, what is default MIME Type for "external" XSL ?
I need to configure my WEB-Server to proper MIME Type.

text/xsl
or
text/xml


2) What MIME Type I should use in my XML for "embedded" XSL ?
=========
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"

href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl"?>
<article>
...
========

Is there any standart for this ?


P.S. It defined for CSS, not for XSL : http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/

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[David Carlisle]

text/xsl
or
text/xml

text/xsl has never been registered (although it was used in some
examples in various documents, and it works in IE)

following the new house style for xml releated mime types it's _supposed_
to be text/xslt+xml but

text/xml

is also correct (as xslt is XML) and has the benefit of working in
IE Mozilla and netscape, so I'd use text/xml.

David

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[Mike Brown]

Post by Alexander Voropay
text/xsl
or
text/xml
text/xsl has never been registered (although it was used in some
examples in various documents, and it works in IE)
following the new house style for xml releated mime types it's _supposed_
to be text/xslt+xml but

per rfc 3023, use of 'text' media type is less than favorable. if the intent
is to process the xsl and not just view it, or unless some other encoding
related conditions are met, application/xslt+xml is preferable.

of course, using this today has the downside that web browsers / OSes treat
unrecognized subtypes of 'application' with great caution and don't easily
give you the option of saying "from here on out, treat this the same way you
treat text/xsl".

Post by Alexander Voropay
text/xml
is also correct (as xslt is XML) and has the benefit of working in
IE Mozilla and netscape, so I'd use text/xml.

i'd underscore the fact that there's a clear difference between
what is correct and what works in these applications... "works"
in the sense that the applications behave the way you're intending.

the original poster will have to decide whether to do what's correct
or just do what works. it's like HTML in the Netscape's heyday...

-mike

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[David Carlisle]

Post by Mike Brown
per rfc 3023, use of 'text' media type is less than favorable. if the intent
is to process the xsl

yes I wondered about suggestting application/ but I think for a
programming language that is usually hand authored, text/ musy surely be
right. application/ is fine for stuff that is essentially machine
generated code or data, but you can read xslt in emacs, can't you?

Anyone on this list probably _reads_ a lot more xslt than they run.

David

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[Wendell Piez]

Post by David Carlisle
Anyone on this list probably _reads_ a lot more xslt than they run.

:-> But if I run it many times, do I get extra credit?

Cheers,
Wendell


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[G. Ken Holman]

Post by Alexander Voropay
text/xsl
or
text/xml
text/xsl has never been registered (although it was used in some
examples in various documents, and it works in IE)
following the new house style for xml releated mime types it's _supposed_
to be text/xslt+xml but
text/xml
is also correct (as xslt is XML) and has the benefit of working in
IE Mozilla and netscape, so I'd use text/xml.

Is there any news on the status of RFC 3023[1] section 8.17 use of
"application/xslt+xml" for this purpose?

............... Ken

[1] http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc3023.txt


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