application/smil MIME type in Apache default (was:Re: XML MIME types)

[Philipp Hoschka <ph...@w3.org>]

Somebody just pointed me to a recent discussion about which
XML-based media types should be included in the Apache default
configuration (sorry for joining this so late).

I'd like to see application/smil included.

This is the media type of SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration
language) which allows integrating different media types (images,
text, audio, video, ...) into a timed multimedia presentation.
It is XML-based.

SMIL has been issued as a W3C recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/

The mime type is described in an Internet draft:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoschka-smil-media-type-02.txt

A request has been sent to the IETF area director to issue this
as an RFC.

Would be great if this could be included

Thanks !

-Philipp

(sorry if you receive this twice - i sent a copy earlier today,
but it looks like it didn't make it to the list)

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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:48:45 -0700
From: jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
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Subject: Re: XML MIME types
Mime-Version: 1.0
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A quick check of the IANA registry shows that text/xml and application/xml
have indeed been registered.

(see: http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types).

As to xsl, it isn't there (you should probably poke the xsl folks to
register it...).

While you are at it, you might go looking for other things that should
be added.
			- Jim

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Re: application/smil MIME type in Apache default (was:Re: XML MIME types)

[Manoj Kasichainula <ma...@io.com>]

On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 11:26:49PM +0200, Philipp Hoschka wrote:
> I'd like to see application/smil included.

I'm not sure that MIME types that have not been approved which don't
have x- prefixes should be added in. But this may have already been
done in the past, and this might be close enough to apparently that
it would not matter. I'd like to see someone more in tune with the
standards processes make this call.

In any case, until Apache includes this, a webmaster can always add it
in mime.types or through an AddType directive.

-- 
Manoj Kasichainula - manojk at io dot com - http://www.io.com/~manojk/
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