Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Sean Middleditch]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 14:13, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 00:22, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 
> > Comments?  Questions?  Concerns?
> 
> Has wildcarding or regexps been considered?
> 
> For example it could be convenient to be able to write
>   MimeType=text/*;application/*xml;

That would be a _really_ bad idea.  But since we have type inheritance,
it isn't necessary.  All MIME types that are compatible with text/plain
should inherit from it, so anything that supports text/plain will
support them as well.

> ...or something like that in generic text editors' desktop entries.
> 
> $ grep -o \\btext/ freedesktop.org.xml.in | wc -l
> 69
> 
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