XML Media Types
RFC 7303, “XML Media Types”, is a Proposed Standard document published in July 2014 by H. Thompson, C. Lilley. It updates RFC 6839. It obsoletes RFC 3023. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This specification standardizes three media types -- application/xml, application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd -- for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) while defining text/xml and text/ xml-external-parsed-entity as aliases for the respective application/ types. This specification also standardizes the '+xml' suffix for naming media types outside of these five types when those media types represent XML MIME entities.
What “Proposed Standard” means
An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.
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