Network Working Group                                          L. Romary
Internet-Draft                                            TEI Consortium
Intended status: Standards Track                             S. Lundberg
Expires: September 19, 2010                The Royal Library, Copenhagen
                                                          March 18, 2010


                  
The 'application/tei+xml' mediatype
                     
draft-lundberg-app-tei-xml-00

Abstract

   This document defines the 'application/tei+xml' media type for markup
   languages defined in accordance with the Text Encoding and
   Interchange guidelines

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Registration of MIME type 'application/tei+xml'  . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Recognizing TEI files  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   4.  Fragment identifier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   5.  Security considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   6.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10



































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.  Introduction

   The TEI an international and interdisciplinary standard that is
   widely used by libraries, museums, publishers, and individual
   scholars to represent all kinds of textual material for online
   research and teaching.  [TEI]

   In order to increase the possibilities for generic XML processing
   this document defines the 'application/tei+xml' media type in
   accordance with [RFC3023]









































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.  Registration of MIME type 'application/tei+xml'

      MIME media type name: application

      MIME subtype name: tei+xml

      Required parameters: None

      Optional parameters: charset

         Identical with charset in [RFC3023]

      Encoding considerations:

         By virtue of TEI XML content being XML, it has the same
         considerations when sent as 'application/tei+xml' as does XML
         in general.  See RFC 3023 [RFC3023], Section 3.2.

      Security considerations:

         TEI elements may refer to arbitrary URIs.  Hence the security
         issues of [RFC3986], section 7, apply.

      Interoperability considerations: None.

      Published specification:

         This media type registration is for TEI documents as described
         in the TEI Guidelines[TEI].

      Applications which use this media type:

         There are currently no applications using the media type
         'application/tei+xml'.  It will be an entirely new type which
         is registered in order to allow for the deployment of TEI on
         the World Wide Web as a first class XML application.

      Additional information:

         Magic number(s):

            There is no single initial octet sequence that is always
            present in TEI documents.

         file extension(s):

            TEI documents have most often the extensions '.xml' and
            '.tei'.



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         Macintosh File Type Code(s)

            TEXT

         Object Identifier(s) or OID(s)

            Not applicable












































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.  Recognizing TEI files

   A [TEI] file usually contain either of the strings

      <TEI

      <TEI.2

   near the beginning.










































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.  Fragment identifier

   Documents having the media type 'application/tei+xml', use the
   fragment identifier notation in the same way as does 'application/
   xml'.  This is specified in [RFC3023] or its successors.














































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.  Security considerations

   An XML resource identifier does not in itself compromise data
   security.  When converted to IRIs or URIs and used to provide access
   to network resources, care must be taken to properly interpret the
   data to prevent unintended access.













































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.  Normative References

   [RFC3023]  Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media
              Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.

   [RFC3986]  Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
              Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
              RFC 3986, January 2005.

   [TEI]      "TEI Guidelines", <http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/>.









































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Authors' Addresses

   Laurent Romary
   TEI Consortium


   Email: laurent.romary@loria.fr
   URI:   http://www.tei-c.org/


   Sigfrid Lundberg
   The Royal Library, Copenhagen
   Postbox 2149
   1016 Koebenhavn K
   Denmark

   Email: slu@kb.dk
   URI:   http://sigfrid-lundberg.se/

































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