[JDEV] custom status tags

Thomas Charron tcharron at ductape.net
Wed Dec 1 15:43:17 CST 1999


Quoting Carl MacDonald <carlm at communities.com>:
> I'm working on a jabber client to make users of our chat software better
> able to find each other (can you say skunkworks). What I'm wanting to do is
> have a custom tag that I place within the status message to pass this
> information.
> The last rev of the jabber server I tried (shortly after the protocol
> change) no longer allowed this functionality. Is this still the case?

  The status packet can be extended with the use of additional tags using a 
custom namespace.  Aka, <mynewtag xmlns="jabber:mycustomnamespace>.  I BELIEVE 
this is what is being spoken about in the current protocol documentation when 
it talks about the <x> tag..

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Thomas Charron
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