[jdev] Re: XHTML-IM XEP implementation

Thu Jan 4 14:08:43 CST 2007

Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
>>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>> Alexander Gnauck wrote:
>>>>> I would like prefer smth which allows multipart
>>>>> messages with different content types where plain text is always
>>>>> required. Content types could be plain text, xhtml, rtf etc...
>>>> Hmm, there are many issues with email to jabber translation (attached
>>>> files etc.). They are not easy to work out, but it would be interesting
>>>> to try. :-)
>>> If we want to replace email, maybe copy email's solution?
>>> I can imagine something like this:
>>>
>>> <message xmlns:content="....">
>>>  <body content:type="text/plain">
>>>   (plain text would still use body element to be backwards compatible)
>>>  </body>
>>>
>>>  <content:part type="text/html">
>>>   <html xmlns="......">.....</html>
>>>  </content:part>
>>>
>>>  <content:part type="image/png" encoding="base64"
>>>                disposition="inline" filename="x.png">
>>>    ...............................
>>>  </content:part>
>>> </message>
>> Except that I hate MIME. :-)
> 
> If Peter says so, then I will consider hating MIME, too. Just need to
> find some reasons first ;)

To be more precise, I don't think that attaching files to email messages 
is a smart way to transfer files.

>> Better, I think, for the sending domain to
>> store the attachment (WebDAV anyone?) and for the recipient to retrieve
>> the attachment via a well-defined file transfer method.
> 
> But you still need a method to advertise the attachments somehow.

Sure. XEP-0066 or XEP-0137 or something like that. IMHO XEP-0129 could 
come in handy here...

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
http://www.jabber.org/people/stpeter.shtml

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