[MEI-L] File extensions

Raffaele Viglianti raffaeleviglianti at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 16:32:19 CEST 2013


FWIW, this was TEI's application for a mimetype. I don't *think* it was
successful, I might be wrong.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lundberg-app-tei-xml-02

Raf


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Raffaele Viglianti <
raffaeleviglianti at gmail.com> wrote:

> XML is XML, I think.
>
> So I use .xml regularly. Not a big fan of .mei, .tei, .odd that I see
> around sometimes. It's possibly a small thing, but I just see that as a
> file association nightmare in any OS :P
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Hankinson <
> andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a common understanding of what the proper file extension for MEI
>> files should be?
>>
>> I've been assuming .mei is the "standard", but a counter-example of .xml
>> was recently brought to my attention. So, I thought I'd poll the collected
>> wisdom and see what others were doing. Are you using .xml, .mei, or some
>> other variation on these?
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>> ====
>> Related:
>> -- Should we register an actual mimetype? Maybe:
>> application/vnd.music-encoding+xml ?
>>
>>
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