[Standards] IMML

[Jonathan Chayce Dickinson]

I just thought, we could do something along the lines of Microformats, e.g:

Hello, <span rel="emoticon" title=":-)">:D</span>.

Where 'rel' signifies that it is an emoticon and 'title' is the parent 
of the emoticon (the fall-back). Seems to work pretty well and I don't 
think it will break existing clients...

Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:32:34PM +0200, Jonathan Chayce Dickinson wrote:
>   
>> What you said is very true Michal, but you haven't taken it one step back.
>>
>> If the truth be told, these clients are processing XML. The sooner they 
>> wake up and smell the coffee and use a proper XML processing framework 
>> instead of shoddy home-grown ones, the better. There are plenty frameworks 
>> out there, just plug-n-play...
>>     
>
> <joke>
> Would you be so kind and plug-n-playd me one in mcabber, please? ;-)
> </joke>
>
>   
>> XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language, note the 'extensible', you 
>> should be able to add to it without worry for backward compatibility. The 
>> fact that their client can not support extra attributes is, in reality, a 
>> *bug*.
>>     
>
> Sure, I know. It is. Bugs are everywhere :-(.
>
> But, as you noticed, you probably need a home-grown XML syntethyzer,
> since you are not allowed to put many other things into the XML stream
> (like processing instructions). And you need at last to modify that one
> to handle attributes in different namespace than their tag. They need to
> generate and place XML namespace prefixes there, remember them, atc.
>
> As I said, your way is 100% valid and correct. But I just think the way
> with separate tag will cause in less effort implementing it. Is there
> any advantage in your way? If there is, I have no objections using it.
>
>   

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