[relaxng-user] MIME type for RELAX NG

[Andreas Sewe]

Robin Berjon wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nicer to have a media type for the XML syntax 
> too, say application/relaxng+xml? It could help for instance 
> select between various schema languages without having to 
> look inside.

Given that the W3C aims at registering media types for most of
their specified formats in the Standards tree
<http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype> and that Relax
NG will been an ISO-approved standard I would like to see an
IETF Standard tree application/rng+xml type in there, too.

Personally I have a slight preference for rng+xml over the 
longer relaxng+xml, since the general patterns seems to be to 
simply stick the suffix +xml to the recommended file extension. 
For the compact syntax I would then prefer a type like 
rng-compact, using the -compact suffix in analogy to the +xml 
one. But those are just my $0.02...

Regards,

Andreas Sewe