XML Media Types
RFC 7303
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(July 2014; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 3023
Updates RFC 6839
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2016-01-06 | ||
| Replaces | draft-lilley-xml-mediatypes | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication (wg milestone: Feb 2014 - Publication requeste... ) | |
| Document shepherd | Murray Kucherawy | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2014-02-26) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7303 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
| Send notices to | (None) | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) H. Thompson
Request for Comments: 7303 University of Edinburgh
Obsoletes: 3023 C. Lilley
Updates: 6839 W3C
Category: Standards Track July 2014
ISSN: 2070-1721
XML Media Types
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.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7303.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Characters, Encodings, Charsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. MIME Entities, XML Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Encoding Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. XML MIME Producers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2. XML MIME Consumers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. The BOM and Encoding Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. XML Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. XML MIME Entities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Using '+xml' when Registering XML-Based Media Types . . . 11
4.3. Registration Guidelines for XML-Based Media Types Not
Using '+xml' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Fragment Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6. The Base URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. XML Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.1. UTF-8 Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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8.2. UTF-16 Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.3. Omitted Charset and 8-Bit MIME Entity . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.4. Omitted Charset and 16-Bit MIME Entity . . . . . . . . . 16
8.5. Omitted Charset, No Internal Encoding Declaration . . . . 17
8.6. UTF-16BE Charset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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