RFC 1874 (rfc1874) - Page 2 of 6

SGML Media Types

RFC 1874                    SGML Media Types               December 1995


2.1.  Text/SGML

         MIME type name:          Text
         MIME subtype name:       SGML
         Required parameters:     none
         Optional parameters:     charset, SGML-bctf, SGML-boot
         Encoding considerations: may be encoded
         Security considerations: see section 4 below
         Published specification: ISO 8879:1986
         Person and email address to contact for further information:
                                  E. Levinson [email protected]>

   The Text/SGML media-type can be employed when the contents of the
   SGML entity is intended to be read by a human and is in a readily
   comprehensible form.  That is the content can be easily discerned by
   someone without SGML display software.  Each record in the SGML
   entity, delimited by record start (RS) and record end (RE) codes,
   must correspond to a line in the Text/SGML body part.

   SGML entities that do not meet the above requirements should use the
   Application/SGML media-type.

   See section 2.3 for a description of the parameters.

2.2.    Application/SGML

         MIME type name:          Application
         MIME subtype name:       SGML
         Required parameters:     none
         Optional parameters:     SGML-bctf, SGML-boot
         Encoding considerations: may be encoded
         Security considerations: see section 4 below
         Published specification: ISO-8879
         Person and email address to contact for further information:
                                  E. Levinson [email protected]>

   Use the Application/SGML media-type for SGML text entities that are
   not appropriate for Text/SGML.  When used, each record start (RS) and
   record end (RE) character shall be explicitly represented by the bit
   combination specified in the SGML declaration.

   The parameters are described in the next section.









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