I am going to repeat what I said on xsf@ a bit.

On 2017/10/16, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> 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

This can be achieved with XHTML-IM already.

> - 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*)

This can also be achieved with XHTML-IM. The bridge developer would know
what markup is being used on the other side, and could translate it
directly for each client, thus sparing clients from each having
flawed/vulnerable implementations.

> 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.

Not every client implements $MARKUP.

> And there are the security implications of XHTML-IM.

This is being discussed on another thread, though, how does that compare
to vulnerable markdown implementations?


Thanks,

-- 
Maxime “pep” Buquet

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