[jdev] Seeing users' genders: implementation opinions?

[spike411]

gperrot;9686 Wrote: 
> In buddymob.com, we guess the gender by using the prefix name in the
> vCard:
> Mr. is mapped to male whereas Ms. is mapped to female.
> Our android client use this guessing for editing and viewing vCards.
> We also modified the ejabberd module to allow to search for a
> particular gender.
> Jabber.fr use a non standard field: <gender>, and they also modified
> the ejabberd's user search.

Well, I *think* that the vCard RFC allows extending, so you
could/should use X-GENDER element. I think it is implemented this way in
some software, you can search the Web for examples.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt

3.8 Extended Types

The types defined by this document can be extended with private
types
using the non-standard, private values mechanism defined in [RFC
2045]. Non-standard, private types with a name starting with "X-"
may
be defined bilaterally between two cooperating agents without
outside
registration or standardization.

Also:
x-name       = "X-" 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / "-")
; Reserved for non-standard use

Regards,
Lukáš


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