RFC - 3023

XML Media Types

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3023.txt
Authors:	M. Murata [IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory], S. St.Laurent [simonstl.com], D. Kohn [Skymoon Ventures]
Date:	January 2001
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Obsoletes:
RFC-2376	XML Media Types (Obsoleted by RFC-3023prop)

Updates:
RFC-2048	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (Obsoleted by RFC-4288, RFC-4289) (Updated by RFC-3023prop)

Referred by:	52 RFC
Refers to:	24 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

This document standardizes five new media types -- text/xml, application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity, application/xml- external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd -- for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the Extensible Markup Language (XML). This document also standardizes a convention (using the suffix '+xml') for naming media types outside of these five types when those media types represent XML MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) entities. XML MIME entities are currently exchanged via the HyperText Transfer Protocol on the World Wide Web, are an integral part of the WebDAV protocol for remote web authoring, and are expected to have utility in many domains.

Major differences from RFC 2376(-> 3023^prop) are (1) the addition of text/xml- external-parsed-entity, application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd, (2) the '+xml' suffix convention (which also updates the RFC 2048(-> 4289 | 4288) registration process), and (3) the discussion of "utf-16le" and "utf-16be".

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