[jdev] my own xml in body tag

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Sun, 15 May 2005 09:12:21 +0200, Julian Missig <julian at jabber.org>  
wrote:

>
> It is, however, against typical Jabber convention. It's legal XML, but  
> it's not Jabber convention. Jabber convention is to use the <x/> element.
>
> Julian

I have been using and developing with Jabber for many years now, and never  
took notice of this "convention". Might I add that if such a convention  
exists, I propose it to be deemed "silly" and no longer be followed. +1  
please.

Seriously now.. what's the point of calling it x? Maybe in the era before  
namespace-aware parsers this could have been *slighty* usefull, but  
nowadays?

I would suggest using something that describes the data it's carrying, so  
"game" is still a little bit broad if you ask me. Technically it doesn't  
matter ofcourse... you can use anything, it's your namespace. Your  
favorite pet, your mother's maiden name, the capital of Iceland, it's all  
good. But typically in XML you choose something descriptive of your data.  
"x" hardly qualifies for that I'd think.