XML and MIME

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 the MIME type.

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
- Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT): application/xslt+xml
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): image/svg+xml

Unregistered
- Mathematical Markup Language (MathML): application/mathml+xml
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0): application/rss+xml

External links

Official List of MIME Types

IBM article

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