Network Working Group G. McCobb
Internet-Draft IBM Corporation
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XHTML+Voice - application/xv+xml
draft-mccobb-xv-media-type-00
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Abstract
This document describes the registration of the MIME sub-type
application/xv+xml. This sub-type is intended for use as a media
descriptor for XHTML+Voice multimodal language documents. The XHTML+
Voice 1.2 language specification is maintained by the VoiceXML Forum
at .
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1. Conventions used in this document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 [1].
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2. Introduction
XHTML+Voice is a member of the XHTML family of document types, as
specified by XHTML Modularization [6]. XHTML+Voice extends XHTML 1.1
[7] with a modularized subset of VoiceXML 2.0 [11], XML Events [9],
and a few extensions to both XHTML and VoiceXML 2.0. XHTML 1.1,
VoiceXML 2.0 and XML Events are W3C Recommendations.
The language integration defined by XHTML+Voice supports all modules
defined by XHTML Modularization, and adds voice interaction to XHTML
elements to enable multimodal applications. The defined document
type for XHTML+Voice is XHTML Host language document type conformant.
XHTML+Voice 1.2 [10] is maintained by the VoiceXML Forum, at URI
location .
2.1 application/xv+xml Usage
The application/xv+xml media type is intended to be a media
descriptor for XHTML+Voice multimodal documents. It is used to
inform applications that additional markup for running a voice
browser component and activating handlers for DOM Level 2 events via
XML Events [9] can be processed.
This media type registration is not intended for e-mail usage.
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3. IANA Registration
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of MIME media type
application/xv+xml
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: xv+xml
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters:
charset: has the same semantics as the charset parameter of the
"application/xml" media type specified in [3].
Encoding considerations:
XHTML+Voice has the same media type encoding considerations
specified in section 3.2 of [3].
Security considerations:
XHTML+Voice is an extension of XHTML and has the same security
issues as XHTML. These include interpreting anchors and forms in
XHTML documents, and scripting languages and other dynamic
interactive capabilities. See section 7 of [4].
In addition, the scripting language can be accessed by both the
XHTML and the VoiceXML 2.0 markup embedded in the XHTML+Voice
document. See section 1.3.1.5 of [10].
XML-Events [9] allows an author to attach a handler to any node in
the document. The handler that is activated in response to a
specified event may be either a voice dialog or a script that can
be either in the same or an external document.
Interoperability considerations:
Because XHTML+Voice is built upon W3C standard recommendations, it
is designed to be interoperable across a wide range of platforms
and client devices. Because the extensions to XHTML are
identified by their namespaces, all browsers that have namespace
support can run an XHTML+Voice document as an XHTML document
without voice interaction.
Published specification:
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The latest published version of XHTML+Voice is [10].
Applications which use this media type:
XHTML+Voice documents are intended to be deployed on the World
Wide Web and rendered by multimodal browsers that support the
visual and voice modes of interaction. Because XHTML+Voice is an
application of XML, authors can expect XHTML+Voice user agents to
be conformant XML 1.0 [5] processors. See section 2 of [4].
Additional information:
Magic number(s): There is no single string that is always
present.
File extension(s): mxml, xhvml, xvml, xvm
Macintosh File Type Code(s): TEXT
Person & e-mail address to contact for further information:
Gerald McCobb
mccobb@us.ibm.com
Intended usage: LIMITED USE
Author/Change controller: Gerald McCobb
Further information:
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4. Fragment Identifiers
See section 3 of [4]. Following [4], fragment identifiers for XHTML+
Voice documents designate the element with the corresponding ID
attribute value (see [5] section 3.3.1).
While XHTML+Voice adds new ID attributes with fragment identifier
namespaces that are not in the same namespace as XHTML, uniqueness of
the ID attribute values is preserved within the document. See
sections 1.3.1 and 5.3 of [10].
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5. Recognizing XHTML+Voice files
Because XHTML+Voice is XML, an XHTML+Voice document [optionally]
starts with an XML declaration which begins with "
Because XHTML+Voice is in the XHTML family of languages, the root
element of an XHTML+Voice document is 'html' and '