[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages
David Waite
dwaite at jabber.com
Mon Dec 11 11:50:54 CST 2000
tcharron wrote:
> The only thing I want to ask about this is this line:
>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> Why would this not be part of an extended namespace, aka:
>
> <x xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>
> The entire point of the x tag was for exactly this. What happens next
> year when everyone starts formating in 'Joes script of the year'? By adding
> a tag specifically for a given display type, it's locking down the protocol.
>
Yes, but the x tag is part of the jabber protocol/namespace, while the html tag
is part of the xhtml namespace. We cannot specify the element names in another
namespace.
-David Waite
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