Re: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 04:06:39PM +0100, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > Presumably valid xml files will appear as text/xml, and not 
> > as text/plain.
> 
> And will that be handled the same as application/octet-stream files, or just
> opened silently with a default XML-editing application such as gedit?

  That's usually not what you want. "application/xml" is cleaner in this
respect, see also the +xml extension of RFC 3023
  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt

Daniel

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