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Currently, the section on media-type in Section 26 Serialization says: > The value of the media-type attribute provides the value of the media-type > parameter to the serialization method. The default value is text/xml in the > case of the xml output method, text/html in the case of the html and xhtml > output methods, and text/plain in the case of the text output method. This fails to mention what the media type should be for the other standard output methods: json and adaptive. I'm not sure about adaptive (implementation-defined?), but json should probably have the proper IANA encoding: "application/json". Source: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt (which would could mention in the references, if that makes sense).