[JDEV] Custom messages/extensions

[Peter Millard]

Richard Dobson wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Message is not really appropriate for what you want to use it for, IQ
> is the place you should be putting your extensions, in messages you
> can only add x elements into the message and you certainly shouldnt
> be defining new message types.

Richard & Mark -

You can totally use any elements you want inside of a message provided that
it is namespaced properly (which your example seemed to be). This is the
nature of XML and namespaces. If you're application is more of a
"transactional" flow type of thing, you may want to use something more
standardized like Jabber-RPC, or just use IQ's since it has the implied
"request-result" type of transactional flow built into the protocol. If
you're just transporting bulk payloads, messages will work fine as you
showed in your example XML.

Peter M.