Re: Mighty SGMLin' MIME Power

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> was heard to say:
| <alternative>
| <part charset="iso-8859-1">
| This is plaïn.

This is fine, as long as you remember to escape &lt; and &amp; 

| <part type=text/enriched?
| This is clearly not plain.

Did you mean: <part type="text/enriched?">?

| <part type=image/gif external="~/rms.gif">

Ack.  Quote them attvals, and use empty-tag syntax if the tag's empty:

  <part type="image/gif" external="~/rms.gif"/>

| </alterntive>

| to include an image in the middle of a text piece.  (Yes, we do end
| tag minimization (or whatever it's called).)  And parts that aren't
| explicitly marked are text/plain, and stuff.

IMHO, this is insanity if you aren't going to (1) make the
content XML not SGML (it's not necessarily right, but, eh.) and
(2) make the whole thing well formed (in the XML sense).

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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