[JDEV] client to client communication using jabber?

Fri Jan 3 17:01:09 CST 2003

Actually, that helps a lot. I was trying to over think the problem and 
getting lost in RTFMing ;).

I can just not display the new message type in my own chat client and parse 
out the XML, duh... :).

Cheers,

At 02:32 PM 1/3/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Sending XML Payloads with your messages is perfectly legal.  Just put it
>under the root message node like so.
>
><message to='' from='' type='mycustommessage|chat|whatever'>
>         <body>If you had my client you would be getting Bridge
>information.</body>
>         <subject>bridge</subject>
>         <mydata xmlns="my:custom:namespace">
>                 <bridgexml>
>                         more data
>                 </bridgexml>
>         </mydata>
></message>
>
>If you implement your own namespaces you aren't constrained by the
>jabber:x:x namespace specs (although jabber:x:oob is pretty open-ended).
>Also, it is not allowed to use a "jabber:mynamespace" namespace that
>isn't in the spec.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Regards,
>JD Conley
>Winfessor, Inc
>www.winfessor.com
>"Life would be so much easier if we could just see the source code."
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org] On Behalf Of
>Pat Magnan
>Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:07 PM
>To: jdev at jabber.org
>Subject: [JDEV] client to client communication using jabber?
>
>Brief description of what we're trying to do:
>- our project is a Bridge Bidding tool, it allows two players to
>'practice'
>bidding hands over the Internet
>- we decided to use the JabberCom object, and use it for our embedded
>chat
>client (so they can discuss things from within the program)
>- when I saw I could send XML strings using Jabber, I thought I'd use
>that
>also for one client to talk to the other one (passing strings
>representing
>each player's hand of cards, what bid they're making, and so on).
>
>I'm having a little difficulty working out if it is even possible to
>send
>my own (somewhat limited) dtd or basically arbitrary data from one
>client/jid to the other (I don't care if it has to go through the
>server, I
>just want the server to forward it to the other client). Actual messages
>
>are no problem, but the documentation doesn't clearly guide me as to how
>to
>do that (much of it being in the form of proposals I guess so I'm trying
>to
>do things that aren't implemented it seems).
>
>I've seen things like jabber:x:data - which sounds like it would do, or
>jabber:something:oob. The protocol document was a good start, where do I
>go
>from here?
>
>The two clients can message successfully, so, it's a matter of working
>out
>how to send xml from one to the other (assuming I can) that contains my
>application's data.
>
>Any pointers or references that google isn't turning up for me that
>anyone
>can think of?
>
>Thanks,
>
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