On 24 Feb 2016, at 11:57, Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote: > 2016-02-14 22:33 GMT+01:00 Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]>: > I would like to see this XEP support more or less arbitrary attributes like > content-type, content-length as well as resolution (x,y) for images and > videos as well as runtime for audio that can be used when referencing files > on HTTP hosts. > > The twitter API on which this is based on does this as well. > > Is this something that could be included in this XEP? And maybe have the XEP > include a list of some standard attributes and their meaning. > > I've been planing to provide a way to annotate HTTP file links and I think it > would be great to implement this in the same XEP. (HTTP Upload and link > sharing is already seeing wide adoption (Conversations, gajim, monal, xabber)) > > I still have the requirment that i need to 'annote' (or 'reference' if you > will) data like URLs in the body tag with information like content-type, > content-lenght and so on. > > If you don't want this in the references XEP I'm fine with this and I'm gonna > create my own. However I believe this would mix quit well especially since > twitter does the same thing. > > Having arbitrary (XML) attributes is probably a problem schema wise. So a > slightly modified version of my earlier proposal would be to have a data form > child of the reference element and a (growing) list of well known fields. > > Kev: Is this something you'd be willing to include in your XEP? If you like > I'd even add it myself and create a PR. If not can I get a 'No' so I can > create my own XEP to fullfill this need?
Sorry, I should have replied earlier. I’m not sure about the data forms idea, but the basic premise of marking up bits of the body is what the spec’s for. What’s the reason that arbitrary attributes are needed? (Sorry, I’m possibly being dense) /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
