[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages

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