RFC 3023

"XML Media Types", January 2001

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2376

Updates:

RFC 2048

Updated by:

RFC 6839

Authors:

M. Murata
S. St. Laurent
D. Kohn

Stream:

[Legacy]

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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. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.