[Standards] XEP-115pre16 nits

Rachel Blackman rcb at ceruleanstudios.com
Thu Jan 24 15:10:01 CST 2008


On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

>>>> - We need to specify what happens if there are multiple XEP-128
>>>> extensions.  There are several choices:
>>>> 1. Only use the extension of FORM_TYPE urn:xmpp:dataforms:softwareinfo
>>>> 2. Only use the first one
>>>> 3. Append all the extensions, after sorting by FORM_TYPE
>>>> 4. Append all the extensions, inter-sorting between the fields in
>>>> all
>>>> forms
>>>> 5. Append all the extensions, in the order that they appear, only
>>>> sorting the fields in each form
>>
>>
>> I really don't like 1-3, so my opinion is that it should either be  
>> 4, 5
>> or something better that someone else comes up with.
>
> I kind of like 3. 5 seems problematic (what if your order is different
> from my order because of DOM processing strangeness or whatever?).  
> But 4
> would be fine with me.

3 seems the most logical to me as well, I admit.  But I may be  
overlooking some reason that option is less than ideal.  Joe, is there  
a particular reason that you dislike 3?

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