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There are two MIME assignments for XML data. These are:

  • application/xml (RFC 3023)
  • text/xml (RFC 3023)

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 3023).

The following are some examples of common XML media types:

  • Registered
    • Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML): application/xhtml+xml (RFC 3236)
    • Atom: application/atom+xml (RFC 4287)
  • Registration-In-Progress
  • Unregistered
    • Mathematical Markup Language (MathML): application/mathml+xml
    • Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0): application/rss+xml
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