15 Mar
2026
15 Mar
'26
9:53 a.m.
Hi Schimon, hi list,
On 2026-03-15 03:27, Schimon Jehudah via Standards wrote:
I am not an XSF member, yet I am interested to
reinstate XHTML-IM.
I have useful ideas that would be possible with XHTML-IM.
I used to be in favour of XHTML-IM, too, but now I'm not convinced
anymore myself. Let's talk about use cases first. I see:
1. Blogging with rich structure, like sections/subsections and tables.
If I'm not mistaken, XHTML-IM only has poor support for the former
(H1..H6 instead of "real" sections like e.g. DocBook/XML) and no
support for the latter.
2. Chatting or blogging with enriched syntax, like bold/italic, or
clickable links.
For the former, XHTML-IM as it is now, is not sufficient, IMHO. Both
XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP and XEP-0472: Pubsub Social Feed refer
to Atom and XHTML, but unfortunately recommend the XHTML-IM subset.
For the latter, we have XEP-0393: Message Styling and XEP-0394: Message
Markup. Which are missing clickable links, but that could be added or we
rely on XEP-0511: Link Metadata?
Cheers