text/*

text/xml

File extensions: .xml

Legacy text/xml variant — differs from application/xml on defaults.

What is text/xml?

text/xml is a legacy media type for XML documents. It exists mainly for historical compatibility; application/xml is preferred by modern services because it defaults to UTF-8 encoding while text/xml historically defaulted to US-ASCII.

Typical usage

Older SOAP endpoints, legacy XML APIs.

Common gotchas

Because of the charset default difference, always specify charset=utf-8 explicitly when using text/xml, or migrate to application/xml.

HTTP header example

Response header

Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

Reference

RFC 7303

Related MIME types

application/xml

XML

text/plain

Plain text

text/html

HTML

text/css

CSS

text/javascript

JavaScript

text/csv

CSV