There are two
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of email messages to support text in character sets other than ASCII, as well as attachments of audio, video, images, and application programs. Message ...
assignments for
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
data. These are:
*application/xml (RFC 7303, previously RFC 3023)
*text/xml (RFC 7303, previously RFC 3023)
However, since the introduction of RFC 7303, these are to be regarded as the same in all aspects except name.
Because of the wide variety of documents that can be expressed using an XML syntax, additional MIME types are needed to differentiate between languages. XML-based formats add a suffix of ''+xml'' to their own MIME type; this convention is defined in (RFC 7303).
''The following are some examples of common XML media types:''
*Registered
** Extensible HyperText Markup Language (
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated.
While HTML, prior ...
): application/xhtml+xml (RFC 3236)
**
Atom
Every atom is composed of a nucleus and one or more electrons bound to the nucleus. The nucleus is made of one or more protons and a number of neutrons. Only the most common variety of hydrogen has no neutrons.
Every solid, liquid, gas, a ...
: application/atom+xml (RFC 4287)
** Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (
XSLT
XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subseq ...
): '
application/xslt+xml''
** Scalable Vector Graphics (
SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium s ...
): '
image/svg+xml''
** Mathematical Markup Language (
MathML
Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide W ...
): application/mathml+xml
*Registration-In-Progress
** application/akn+xml
** application/rif+xml
*Unregistered
** Really Simple Syndication (
RSS 2.0): application/rss+xml
See also
*
Media type
A media type (also known as a MIME type) is a two-part identifier for file formats and format contents transmitted on the Internet. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the official authority for the standardization and publication o ...
External links
Official List of MIME Types
XML
MIME