Bug 726

Summary:	XML/HTML
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	bugzilla, sbrabec
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:	2692
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Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-06-06 09:28:30 UTC

There is some problems with nautilus due to the fact that many xhtml files use a
.html extension but are in fact xml files. Is there any way to say that .html
can also be used for xml files ?

Comment 1 Jeroen Hoek 2004-07-21 02:04:38 UTC

This problem seems to be bigger then just HTML files. XML files can be many
different types of files (XSL, XHTML, NRG, Mime-type database). Are there plans
for supporting mime-type detection based on the used doctype or primary xmlns?

This does seem to go beyond simple file header magic though, perhaps a seperate
routine for XML files? Let mime-types have an optional "xmlns" attribute perhaps? 

The base XML mime-type should only be used as a fall-back for unknown forms of XML.

Comment 2 Christophe Fergeau 2004-12-10 11:16:27 UTC

*** Bug 1321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2007-02-05 08:17:34 UTC

There's already data to match against when trying to detect XHTML files, for example:
  <mime-type type="application/xhtml+xml">
    <sub-class-of type="application/xml"/>
    <_comment>XHTML page</_comment>
    <glob pattern="*.xhtml"/>
    <root-XML namespaceURI='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' localName='html'/>
  </mime-type>

If your XHTML files don't mention http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml in the namespace, then they need fixing. If detecting by data for those XML files still fails, then it's probably a bug in the implementation, so you'd need to file a bug against gnome-vfs, or whatever bit of code is responsible for detecting mime-types in your desktop environment.

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