[jdev] my own xml in body tag

[Ralph Meijer]

On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:51:58PM +0200, Tijl Houtbeckers wrote:
> 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.

+1

> 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 suppose that's the reason. The namespaces of those extensions were
typically jabber:x:something. There was another such convention: having
the direct child element of an <iq/> being called query. Fortunately, we
are leaving that path, as well.

I even believe early versions of jabberd actually didn't check for
'presence', 'iq' or 'message', but rather the first character...

-- 
Groetjes,

ralphm