[JDEV] Roster: additional information

[David Waite]

How about adding xmlns extension support to jabber:*:roster?

-David Waite

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Max Horn
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 6:04 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [JDEV] Roster: additional information
> 
> 
> How about adding an additional field to roster item. Currently, 
> roster items store a JID, subscription information, a nick name and a 
> list of group names.
> 
> 
> 
> Now, many people want to add some additional information to each 
> roster item (like me <g>). A single fields (<notes> or whatever) 
> would already be sufficient. E.g. it's usuful to store a quick info 
> *who* someone is, and maybe where you met him/what he wanted etc...
> 
> 
> Since we use XML, this could be added easily and fully backwards 
> compatible. Older clients would just ignore it.
> 
> 
> 
> I was asked about this feature by several ppl, they wanted me to add 
> it to Jabbernaut. While I could easily do this by keeping a local DB, 
> it would kinda defeat the idea behind server-sider rosters. Plus, I 
> think this feature is sufficiently interesting for all of the Jabber 
> community.
> 
> 
> 
> Your comments, please!
> 
> 
> Max
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