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RFC 7303: XML Media Types

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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.

Document record

Document ID
RFC7303
Published
July 2014
Authors
H. Thompson; C. Lilley
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
art
Pages
35
Also known as
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Obsoletes:
RFC 3023
Updates:
RFC 6839

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2376 (1998)
  2. RFC 3023 (2001)
  3. RFC 7303 (2014)

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