[TAP] draft 0.42 (cleanup toward 0.5)

[Patrick Dowler]

On Wednesday 29 April 2009 05:49:15 Mark Taylor wrote:
> Sec 2.7.1 and Sec 2.9:
>    The usual MIME type for VOTable is "application/x-votable+xml"
>    or maybe "text/x-votable+xml", not "text/xml; content=x-votable".
>    "content" is not listed in the text/xml MIME type registration
>    (RFC3023) as a mandatory or optional parameter of the text/xml
>    MIME type.  RFC3032 also explicitly considers and rejects the
>    idea of using a parameter like this to specify XML subformats -
>    see Appendix A.6.

Which of "application/x-votable+xml" and "text/x-votable+xml" is considered 
the best choice for TAP? For IVOA services in general? Are there good reasons 
to chose one over the other?

thanks,

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Patrick Dowler
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