MIMEConverter

Converting MIME types

(mime-cast to-type'from-type) =>converter

to-type

String; MIME type returned from converter

converter

String; MIME type of converter input

converter

function to convert from from-type to to-type The converter function should check whether the input is given as XML structure or plain string / bytevector data. The latter shall be treated as serialised form (as read from files).

Registering [[MIME]] converters

New MIME converters need to be registered with the converter selection system.

(register-mime-converter! to-type'from-type'converter)

Examples

implementation howto (german DTAUS)

The Converter Table

from	to	function
text/xml	text/xml (and several XML based types)	xml-parse
text/xml (and several XML based types)	text/plain	xml-format
text/xml	text/html	html-parse-permissive (up to html-prag)
multipart/mixed	text/xml	mime-format-multipart-output-element
text/xml	zip-content (several zip based formats like ODF)	zip-unpack-str
zip-content (several zip based formats)	text/xml	zip-pack
image/png	image/svg+xml	svg->png
text/wikipedia	text/xml	parse wiki syntax (slightly missnamed, derived from, but not exactly wikipedia syntax)
text/wikipedia	text/xml	serialise (some) html markup in the wikipedia-derived syntax