On 16.10.2017 20:38, Jonas Wielicki (XSF Editor) wrote: > The XMPP Extensions Editor has received a proposal for a new XEP. > > Title: Body Markup Hints > Abstract: > This document specifies hints about the markup language used in > elements. > > URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/bmh.html
A few words about the motivation behind my Body Markup Hints (BMH) ProtoXEP: BMH does not try to be the successor of XHTML-IM. It is not even meant as intermediate solution. The aim of BMH, although it has a discovery mechanism, is not to let the sender know that the recipient understands a certain markup language, but to hint the recipient that the textual content of the IM message was formatted with a certain markup language. So the case for BMH are things like - Bots sending potential large status information, where there's a desire to bring some structure into that information by using a markup language - Bridges sending textual content which is already formatted using a certain markup language to an XMPP client (guess who is currently writing on a discourse to XMPP bridge *cough* *cough*) BMHs allow the recipient to throw the received text into a markup converter to present it in a richer way. It was pointed out that this could also be achieved with XHTML-IM, which is, of course, true. But not every client implements XHTML-IM. And there are the security implications of XHTML-IM. And even if you send markup to XHTML-IM converted content via a message, you should add a plain <body/> element. And then adding a BMH, if appropriate, seems only sensible. Happy to hear your thoughts. - Florian
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