On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Pedro Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have nothing very strong against Data Forms. My point was that, for > clients that use XPath to parse the known parts of the stanza (and > transparently ignore anything that the client does not support), data > forms are a bit messy :) and a nice semantic XML is much easier to > parse. >
In fact I'd say that Data Forms are good when you don't know in advance all the possible fields, or when you have complex input schemes that must be rendered in clients (e.g. muc or pubsub configuration). In the other cases as best practice I wouldn't abuse on them, in order not to be too much verbose (though we may find a way to "binarize" them ;)) -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Bluendo srl http://www.bluendo.com jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
