[jdev] newer version of vcard

[Heiner Wolf]

Hi,

I know these requirements. Our users were not satisfied with the vcard. 
Vcard basically has contact information. Users of very much chat oriented 
communities demand more personal information like hobbies, eyecolor, 
zodiac sign and more. We created a separate xml data structure containing:

<name/> <profession/> <birthdate/> <age/> <gender/> <zodiacsign/> 
<eyecolor/> <country/> <languages/> <hobbies/> <interests/> <statement/> 
<homeurl/> <favouriteurls/> <html/>

to be stored on the server in iq-get-query-xmlns "storage:client:profile".

Most of them are just free text. The data is stored as CDATA.

This works, but maybe it is not the way to go today. 
- maybe you should use pubsub as protocol. However you can not expect 
anyone to have a pubsub on their server. Availability of pubsub to your 
users depends on your setup, client, server, etc. 
- maybe you should use a more sophisticated data structure. RDF comes 
to mind with various vocabularies from foaf, bio, and other namespaces. 
A simple XML as we use it, is easier implementation wise, but RDF is 
technically much better.

hw
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org]On Behalf Of Oleg V. Motienko
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:33 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: [jdev] newer version of vcard
>
>
> Hello!
>
> Is there newer version of vcard, if present, which JEP.
>
> Users on our server want some additional fields in vcard,
> like "Age", "Sex".
> In several other IM systems this fields present in user info,
>
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> Regards, Oleg
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