RFC 1874 (rfc1874) - Page 2 of 6
SGML Media Types
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
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 <ELevinson@Accurate.com> 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 <ELevinson@Accurate.com> 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. Levinson Experimental
