Mime types on resourceData WAS:Re: [topicmapmail] Fragmented XTM for web...

[Murray Altheim]

Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> [Peter P. Jones]
> 
>><resourceData
>>xmlns:mime="http://www.the_mime_place.org/"
>>mime:type="text/xml"
>>
>><blah xmlns="http://www.blahspace.net">de</blah>
>></resourceData>
>>
>>?
> 
> That's the kind of thing I was think of.  If the MIME type were omitted, the
> litereal would be considered a string.

Except that there's absolutely no need to break compliance with XTM to
do this kind of thing. This approach is by its nature completely
proprietary and ignores the ready machinery of the XTM interchange
syntax. And looking at the example provided, it doesn't make any sense
to me semantically. It shouldn't be using a <resourceData> to reference
an external resource, since <resourceRef> is available, and there is no
provided schema/semantics for the <blah> element, so the context for "de"
is only confused by yet another XML Namespace on <blah>. It's so much
easier just to create and use an identifier such as a PSI, so I can only
ask, why go to all this trouble to avoid the tools that have been
provided?

Murray

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Murray Altheim                         http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/murray/
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