On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Remko Tronçon wrote:
Can someone remind me why we use data forms for this, and not real
elements?
I guess it has something to do with how disco information is to be
extended (looking at XEP-115). Anyway, I guess we don't have a choice
here, but that doesn't mean I like it :-)
Right, it's all about XEP-0128 (extended info in service discovery).
Now, maybe that one was wrong in the first place, but that's another
story...
The idea was that you could write a client UI that displayed name/
value pairs, and have the list be easily extensible.
