XML Media Types
RFC 3023
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(January 2001; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 7303
Updated by RFC 6839
Obsoletes RFC 2376
Updates RFC 2048
Was draft-murata-xml (individual)
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Network Working Group M. Murata
Request for Comments: 3023 IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
Obsoletes: 2376 S. St.Laurent
Updates: 2048 simonstl.com
Category: Standards Track D. Kohn
Skymoon Ventures
January 2001
XML Media Types
Status of this Memo
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 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 registration process), and (3) the discussion of
"utf-16le" and "utf-16be".
Murata, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 3023 XML Media Types January 2001
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. XML Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1 Text/xml Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2 Application/xml Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3 Text/xml-external-parsed-entity Registration . . . . . . . . 11
3.4 Application/xml-external-parsed-entity Registration . . . . 12
3.5 Application/xml-dtd Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. The Byte Order Mark (BOM) and Conversions to/from the UTF-16
Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Fragment Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. The Base URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7. A Naming Convention for XML-Based Media Types . . . . . . . 16
7.1 Referencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8.1 Text/xml with UTF-8 Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.2 Text/xml with UTF-16 Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.3 Text/xml with UTF-16BE Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
8.4 Text/xml with ISO-2022-KR Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.5 Text/xml with Omitted Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.6 Application/xml with UTF-16 Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.7 Application/xml with UTF-16BE Charset . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.8 Application/xml with ISO-2022-KR Charset . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.9 Application/xml with Omitted Charset and UTF-16 XML MIME
Entity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.10 Application/xml with Omitted Charset and UTF-8 Entity . . . 22
8.11 Application/xml with Omitted Charset and Internal Encoding
Declaration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.12 Text/xml-external-parsed-entity with UTF-8 Charset . . . . . 22
8.13 Application/xml-external-parsed-entity with UTF-16 Charset . 23
8.14 Application/xml-external-parsed-entity with UTF-16BE Charset 23
8.15 Application/xml-dtd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.16 Application/mathml+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.17 Application/xslt+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.18 Application/rdf+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.19 Image/svg+xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.20 INCONSISTENT EXAMPLE: Text/xml with UTF-8 Charset . . . . . 25
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