FW: svn:mime-type and */*+xml

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Curtis Pew (c.pew@its.utexas.edu)
ITS - Systems
The University of Texas at Austin
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> From: 	Curtis G Pew
> Sent: 	Friday, May 14, 2004 8:28 AM
> To: 	'Branko ?ibej'
> Subject: 	RE: svn:mime-type and */*+xml
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> From RFC 3023, page 16:
> "Applications may match for types that represent XML MIME entities by comparing the subtype to the pattern '*/*+xml'."
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> I don't agree with the post by Travis that XML documents can't be merged. It might cause problems in some instances, but I think in most cases any merge that would break the XML would be recognized as a conflict by the text merger. However, this did make me realize that a product like Subversion could benefit from treating XML specially. A Google search on "XML diff" turns up several XML-specific "diff" utilities that understand the hierarchical structure of XML. Should I submit this as an issue for a future feature?
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> Curtis Pew (c.pew@its.utexas.edu)
> ITS - Systems
> The University of Texas at Austin
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> From: 	brane@xbc.nu
> Sent: 	Friday, May 14, 2004 6:04 AM
> To: 	Curtis G Pew
> Cc: 	subversion mailing list (E-mail)
> Subject: 	Re: svn:mime-type and */*+xml
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> Curtis G Pew wrote:
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> >The svn book says:
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> >" ... if a file's svn:mime-type property is set to a non-text MIME type (generally, something that doesn't begin with text/, though there are exceptions), Subversion will assume that the file contains binary-that is, not human-readable-data."
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> >So I was wondering if "*/*+xml" types were among the exceptions. In particular, I have a SVG file and I'm wondering if setting the MIME type to 'image/svg+xml' means Subversion will treat it like a binary file.
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> Currently the only exceptions are image/x-xbitmap and image/x-xpixmap, 
> which are text formats. Is */*+xml (or even juust *+xml) actually a 
> precise enough pattern that we could use it?
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> -- Brane
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