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Subject: MIME type and extension clarification
Dear TC members,
in our last TC meeting we discussed what our position on non standard
document types that conform to our specification is. An example for this
are OpenOffice.org HTML templates. They are nothing else than regular
text document templates, but require a different extension and/or MIME
type, because different actions have to be assigned to them in desktop
systems.
Since the content of these documents is an OASIS Open Office document,
it seems to be reasonable that the MIME type of these documents also is
an "application/x-vnd.oasis.openoffice.*" string.
There was already a consensus that the Open Office base specification
should not contain these application specific MIME types, because this
would require a revision of the specification whenever a new MIME
type/extension is requested.
There seem to be (at least) the following options:
a) The TC itself maintains application specific MIME types and
extensions, and publishes them in a separate document.
b) The TC recommends to use vendor specific MIME types and extensions
for for application specific document types.
c) The TC recommends to use the apropriate basic MIME type specified in
the OASIS Open Office specification together with a vendor specific
extension.
d) The TC does not add a recomendation to the specification document,
but leaves it up to the vendors which solution (including b and c above)
is best for their purpose.
An independent MIME type related issue is whether master documents as
specified in the OpenOffice.org proposal are a document type of its own,
and if so, whether its MIME type/extension should be added to the base
specification.
Best regards
Michael
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