the ODF 1.2 CS01 Part 1 specification is consistent on the mime type of database documents: 2.2.10 OpenDocument Database Front End Document > A) The <office:document> element shall have an office:mimetype attribute with the value "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base". > B) If the document is an OpenDocument package then it shall contain a file named mimetype containing the string " application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base". Appendix C. MIME Types and File Name Extensions (Non Normative) > application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base > odb > Database front end document unfortunately the mime type registered at IANA is a different one: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database note ".base" versus ".database". it looks like current implementations based on OpenOffice.org, such as LibreOffice, write the ".base" mime type into files, but register with desktop environments for the ".database" variant.
report submitted to OASIS office-comment, see URL
Question, why database format name is not ODB (like the extension) and keep odf for formula ? When we save a Base or a formula, we have the same : Type : Database ODF (*.odf) for base Type : Formula ODF (.odf)(*.odf) for formula It's not clear ! Nicolas
Is there any progress on this bug? Like registering "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base" at IANA or changing the spec? Or has anyone contacted Svante Schubert, as he is listed as contact at IANA? Can't LibreOffice just register .base (or both) with desktop environments? (I really don't like by odb-files to be opened as ZIP-files)
Link to OASIS JIRA issue added to See Also list for convenience. (In reply to comment #3) > Is there any progress on this bug? Like registering > "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base" at IANA or changing the spec? I sincerely hope that ".base" is changed to ".database" for ODF v1.3 (bringing it in-line with the IANA registered value) to keep this mime type implementation neutral, as well as of a similar nature to the other entries i.e., ".text" instead of ".writer".
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still relevant for tracking the OASIS bug which is not resolved yet
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the OASIS bug might have been resolved but the minutes are somewhat mysterious but if i'm right in remembering what the resolution was it still needs some emails OASIS to IANA
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the ODF TC is currently trying to figure out how to get this resolved with IANA
just been informed that some progress has been achieved: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base
Michael Stahl committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/53fe1f0880bc7e8a467404cddabb27daecfc37cb tdf#45854 sysui: replace wrong ODB mime type It will be available in 7.6.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
correct mime type is registered since June 2022: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.base have adapted all references to the wrong one in core.git, so fixed from LO side. also MR to fix it in "shared-mime-info" at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/merge_requests/207