[jdev] My outgoing jabber packet

Mon Mar 7 14:23:59 CST 2005

While examining my outgoing data packet I see a copy of the message inside a

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></html> tag

Example:
<message id="m_8" type="chat" to="danp5648 at jabber.org/Exodus"><body>hello
back</body><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">hello
back</html></message>

I was wondering how I can use this to advance my skills beyond just text
messages. 

Right now I am just peeling the text out with XML 

Like so: 
thisXML.firstChild.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue

Q #2 Is their an easier way parse this packet? Like using the attribute
names and not arrays?  Thanks 