[JDEV] jabber extensions available for handling locationinformation

Joe Hildebrand jhildebrand at jabber.com
Wed Nov 27 14:55:17 CST 2002


Yes, something like this:

<message to='pubsub'>
  <location xmlns='http://.../location'>
    <lat>39.75</lat>
    <long>-105</long>
  </location>
</message>

where 'pubsub' is the name of a component that would redistribute this to all of the interested parties.


"Arjan Peddemors" <Arjan.Peddemors at telin.nl> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Nickurak [mailto:atrus at jabber.spam.rifetech.com] 
>> Sent: maandag 25 november 2002 18:45
> ...
>> Personally, I'm curious why these goals couldn't be fit into 
>> a properly
>> namespaced child element of the message packet. Could you try to
>> elaborate on this some?
>  
> Do you mean a child element of the <message/> top-level element?
> To my knowledge, the distribution of <message/> elements is not based
> on a subscription mechanism but on addressing. We want a subscription
> based mechanism, because we do not want to send updates of context
> information (presence, location, ...) to every interested party 
> individually.
>
> Arjan.
>
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