On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 14:12 +0200, Matthias Wimmer wrote: > Hi Alex! > > Alex Jones schrieb: > > <message> > > <text>This is <imml:em>not</imml:em> a joke <imml:icon>;-)</imml:icon> > > <imml:uri>http://notajoke.org</imml:uri> > > </message> > > > > The beauty of this is that (specification permitting) if the client > > wishes to ignore the IMML markup and process the message as a > > traditional plain text message, it can. The message IS backwards > > compatible! This is exactly the way HTML works with respect to "unknown" > > elements. > > In HTML this behaviour is defined, but XML is not HTML. You should not > expect the Jabber clients to ignore these extra tags. They typically do > parse the stanza and create some sort of a DOM like tree out of it. > Depending on how they implemented it, I expect you will get displayed > most of the time something out of that: > > - "This is " > - " a joke " > - "This is a joke " > - ""
Ah, ok. Shame. It does beg the question as to whether or not it would be a good idea to bring that behaviour into XMPP messages, though. But that's for another thread. :)
