Jonathan Chayce Dickinson wrote: > I think you have hit on another problem as well. How do we describe a > Jabber Server?
Why do we need to list every service that a server offers? What is the use case? A user can register with services on other servers once on the network, and those can be discovered with service discovery (XEP-0030). > There is no standard mark-up language for it. XMPP > probably wouldn't embed (or at least, I hope not) homegrown XML > standards into a public RSS feed. Why not? Just namespace it and off we go. > Somebody needs to approach the Jabber > Council to get a Jabber Server Markup Language into the works. Gosh that seems like overkill. > For the time-being, it looks like you're going to have to stick to > screen scraping HTML, or: > > All known 'registerable' servers: http://www.jabber.org/servers.xml > > I am going to go out on a limb here, but I think you should be able to > query an official Jabber server somewhere for the features of each > server, because it looks like that list of jabber servers is > auto-generated. Any other ideas? That's what service discovery is for. Peter
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