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<pre>Network Working Group P. Hoschka
Request for Comments: 4536 W3C
Category: Informational May 2006
<span class="h1">The application/smil and application/smil+xml Media Types</span>
Status of This Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
Abstract
This document specifies the media type for versions 1.0, 2.0, and 2.1
of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 1.0, SMIL
2.0, SMIL 2.1). SMIL allows integration of a set of independent
multimedia objects into a synchronized multimedia presentation.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued specifications that
define versions 1.0 [<a href="#ref-1" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification"">1</a>], 2.0 [<a href="#ref-2" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) - [Second Edition]"">2</a>] and 2.1 [<a href="#ref-3" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)"">3</a>] of the Synchronized
Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). This memo provides
information about the application/smil and application/smil+xml media
types.
The definition is based on <a href="./rfc3023">RFC 3023</a>, which defines the use of the
"application/xml" media type [<a href="#ref-4" title=""XML Media Types"">4</a>]. Before using the
"application/smil" or "application/smil+xml" media type, implementors
must thus be familiar with [<a href="#ref-4" title=""XML Media Types"">4</a>].
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language</span>
SMIL allows integrating a set of independent multimedia objects into
a synchronized multimedia presentation. Using SMIL, an author can
1. describe the temporal behavior of the presentation,
2. describe the layout of the presentation on a screen,
3. associate hyperlinks with media objects, and
4. define conditional content inclusion/exclusion based on
system/network properties.
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>. Registration Information</span>
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-3.1" href="#section-3.1">3.1</a>. Registration of MIME media type application/smil</span>
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: smil
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters:
charset
Same as charset parameter considerations of application/xml in
<a href="./rfc3023">RFC 3023</a>.
profile
See <a href="#section-5">Section 5</a> of this document.
Encoding considerations:
Same as encoding considerations of application/xml in <a href="./rfc3023">RFC 3023</a>
Security considerations: See <a href="#section-6">Section 6</a>, "Security Considerations", of
this document.
Interoperability considerations:
SMIL documents contain links to other media objects. The SMIL
player must be able to decode the media types of these media in
order to display the whole document. To increase
interoperability, SMIL has provisions for including alternate
versions of a media object in a document.
Published specification: See [<a href="#ref-1" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification"">1</a>], [<a href="#ref-2" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) - [Second Edition]"">2</a>], and [<a href="#ref-3" title=""Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)"">3</a>]
Applications which use this media type:
SMIL players and editors
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
Additional information:
Semantics of fragment identifiers in URIs: The SMIL media type
allows a fragment identifier to be appended to a URI pointing to a
SMIL resource (e.g., http://www.example.com/test.smil#foo). The
semantics of fragment identifiers for SMIL resources are defined
in the SMIL specification.
Magic number(s):
There is no single initial byte sequence that is always present
for SMIL files. However, <a href="#section-4">Section 4</a> of this document gives some
guidelines for recognizing SMIL files.
File extension(s): .smil, .smi, .sml
NOTE: On the Windows operating system and the Macintosh platform, the
".smi" extension is used by other formats. To avoid conflicts, it is
thus recommended to use the extension ".smil" for storing SMIL files
on these platforms.
Macintosh File Type Code(s): "TEXT", ".SMI", "SMIL"
Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): none
Person & email address to contact for further information:
The author of this memo.
Intended usage: OBSOLETE
Author/Change controller:
The SMIL specification is a work product of the World Wide Web
Consortium's SYMM Working Group.
The W3C has change control over the specification.
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-3.2" href="#section-3.2">3.2</a>. Registration of MIME media type application/smil+xml</span>
MIME media type name: application
MIME subtype name: smil+xml
Required parameters: See registration of application/smil.
Optional parameters: See registration of application/smil.
Encoding considerations: See registration of application/smil.
Security considerations: See <a href="#section-6">Section 6</a>, "Security Considerations", of
this document
Interoperability considerations: See registration of
application/smil.
Published specification: See registration of application/smil.
Applications which use this media type: See registration of
application/smil.
Additional information: See registration of application/smil.
Magic number(s): See registration of application/smil.
File extension(s): See registration of application/smil.
Macintosh File Type Code(s): See registration of application/smil.
Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): See registration of application/smil.
Person & email address to contact for further information: See
registration of application/smil.
Intended usage: COMMON
Author/Change controller: See registration of application/smil.
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Recognizing SMIL Files</span>
All SMIL files will have the string "<smil" near the beginning of the
file. Some will also begin with an XML declaration that begins with
"<?xml", though that alone does not indicate a SMIL document.
All SMIL 2.0 files must include a declaration of the SMIL 2.0
namespace. This should appear shortly after the string "<smil", and
should read 'xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/Language"'.
All SMIL 2.1 files must include a declaration of a SMIL 2.1
namespace, appearing shortly after the string "<smil". The namespace
string depends on the language profile. Please refer to the SMIL 2.1
specification for the definition of the relevant namespace names.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. The "profile" Optional Parameter</span>
This parameter is meant to be used in MIME media-type-based content
negotiation (such as that done with the HTTP "Accept" header) to
negotiate for a variety of SMIL-based languages. It is modelled
after the "profile" parameter in the application/xhtml+xml MIME type
registration [<a href="#ref-5" title=""The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media Type"">5</a>] and is motivated by very similar considerations.
The parameter is intended to be used only during content negotiation.
It is not expected that it be used to deliver content, or that origin
web servers have any knowledge of it (though they are welcome to).
It is primarily targeted for use on the network by proxies in the
HTTP chain that manipulate data formats (such as transcoders).
The value of the profile attribute is a URI that can be used as a
name to identify a language. Though the URI need not be resolved in
order to be useful as a name, it could be a namespace, schema, or
language specification.
For example, user agents supporting only SMIL Basic (see
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html">http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/smil-basic.html</a>) currently have no
standard means to convey their inability to fully support SMIL 2.0.
While SMIL 2.0 Basic user agents are required to parse the full SMIL
2.0 language, there is potentially a substantial burden in receiving
and parsing document content that will not be presented to the user,
since its functionality is not included in SMIL Basic.
In the future, the functionality afforded by this parameter will also
be achievable by the emerging work on a protocol to transfer
Composite Capability/Preferences Profiles (CC/PP) descriptions [<a href="#ref-6" title=""Composite Capability/Preferences Profiles (CC/PP): Structure and Vocabularies 1.0"">6</a>].
It is suggested that the "profile" parameter be used until the CC/PP
protocol work has been finalized.
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
An example use of this parameter as part of a HTTP GET transaction
would be:
Accept: application/smil+xml;
profile="http://www.w3.org/2001/SMIL20/HostLanguage"
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. Security Considerations</span>
SMIL documents contain a construct that allows "infinite loops".
This is indispensable for a multimedia format. However, SMIL clients
should foresee provisions such as a "stop" button that lets users
interrupt such an "infinite loop".
As with HTML, SMIL documents contain links to other media (images,
sounds, videos, text, etc.), and those links are typically followed
automatically by software, resulting in the transfer of files without
the explicit request of the user for each one. The security
considerations of each linked file are those of the individual
registered types.
The SMIL language contains "switch" elements. SMIL provides no
mechanism that ensures that the media objects contained in a "switch"
element provide equivalent information. An author knowing that one
SMIL player will display one alternative of a "switch" and another
will display a different part can put different information in the
two parts. While there are legitimate use cases for this, it also
gives rise to a security consideration: The author can fool viewers
into thinking that the same information was displayed when in fact it
was not.
In addition, all of the security considerations of <a href="./rfc3023">RFC 3023</a> also
apply to SMIL.
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<span class="grey"><a href="./rfc4536">RFC 4536</a> application/smil and application/smil+xml May 2006</span>
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-7" href="#section-7">7</a>. Normative References</span>
[<a id="ref-1">1</a>] "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0
Specification", W3C Recommendation REC-smil-19980615,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-smil/">http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-smil/</a>, July 1998.
[<a id="ref-2">2</a>] "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) -
[Second Edition]", W3C Recommendation,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20050107/</a>, January 2005.
[<a id="ref-3">3</a>] "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)", W3C
Recommendation, <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/</a>,
December 2005.
[<a id="ref-4">4</a>] Murata, M., St. Laurent, S., and D. Kohn, "XML Media Types", <a href="./rfc3023">RFC</a>
<a href="./rfc3023">3023</a>, January 2001.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-8" href="#section-8">8</a>. Informative References</span>
[<a id="ref-5">5</a>] Baker, M. and P. Stark, "The 'application/xhtml+xml' Media
Type", <a href="./rfc3236">RFC 3236</a>, January 2002.
[<a id="ref-6">6</a>] H. Ohto, J. Hjelm, G. Klyne, M. Butler, L. Tran, F. Reynolds, C.
Woodrow "Composite Capability/Preferences Profiles (CC/PP):
Structure and Vocabularies 1.0", W3C Recommendation
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/">http://www.w3.org/TR/CCPP-struct-vocab/</a>, January 2004.
Author's Address
Philipp Hoschka
W3C/ERCIM
2004, route des Lucioles - B.P. 93
06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
FRANCE
EMail: ph@w3.org
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