On Mon Mar 16 14:43:38 2009, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
On Mar 16, 2009, at 13:09, Dirk Meyer wrote:
Yes, maybe restrict the usage to a stanza and not allow it inside a
stanza by default. So a client MAY send any return from any XEP
out of
band, but only the whole result. If out of band is allowed
somewehere
deep inside a stanza it SHOULD be added to the XEP defining that
namespace.
That's not a good idea, since then you couldn't use it for binary
data at all (since you never have base64-encoded data at the top
level). Having it only in specific stanzas would mean that you
couldn't implement a solution for everything, but only on a
case-by-case basis (or you'd have to carry around a list of
situations where it's allowed – ugh).
Bob... XEP-0231
Bob already defines a mechanism for referencing blobs. This provides
an alternative transport for them.
What this won't allow is for huge XML blobs to be referenced within
stanzas, but I can't think of a single use case for that - perhaps
I'm being naïve, but I think Bob and this between them are an
interesting concept.
Dave.
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