authoring, and are expected to have utility in many domains.
proposes two new media types, text/xml and application/xml.
media type to properly label the exchange of XML network entities.
XML network entities is to provide new media types for XML.
the XML media types also belong in the IETF media types tree.
media types are described in the sections below.
example, by offering to save it to a file.
[RFC-2046], e.g., UTF-8, but not UTF-16 (except for HTTP).
to domain-specific security considerations or runtime information.
charset parameter should be used in the same manner.
application/xml can be used for any of these four types.
supported by all conforming XML processors [REC-XML].
level type (see section 19.4.1 of HTTP 1.1 [RFC-2068]), "UTF-16"
a text/xml; charset="utf-16" to application/xml; charset="utf-16".
well as XML authoring tools.
information, see Appendix F of [REC-XML].
charset parameter is omitted from an application/xml entity.
a wide range of Web user agents and XML authoring tools.
information to be parsed and processed by the recipient's XML system.
calls.  More uses of XML will undoubtedly arise.
XML may also have some of the same security concerns as plain text.
environment in ways that adversely affect subsequent operations.
settings after a given display operation is complete.
dangerous action when the key is subsequently pressed by the user.
markup or the character data of the XML document.
encoding to another encoding SHOULD strip the BOM before conversion.
SHOULD be added after conversion is complete.
the enclosed entity as UTF-8 encoded.
a content-transfer-encoding of either quoted-printable or base64.
section 19.4.1 of HTTP 1.1 [RFC-2068] for details).
enclosed entity as encoded per [RFC-1557].
content-transfer-encoding is necessary with any transport.
entity is transported using HTTP.
processors must assume the charset is "us-ascii".
This is a recommended charset value for use with application/xml.
treat the enclosed entity as UTF-16 encoded.
(e.g., HTTP), no content-transfer-encoding is necessary.
show such a declaration, which agrees with the charset parameter).
charset of the XML entity.
this is still a conforming XML entity.
and Basic Multilingual Plane, May 1993.
Systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
First edition -- 1986- 10-15.
[RFC-2068]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., and T.
understanding media type registration issues.
Jelliffe, Gavin Nicol for their many thoughtful comments.