On 13 May 2020, at 03:40, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote: > <snip/> > We might want to face reality > and allow text-multi to treat each line as semantically independent.
Sadly, I don’t think it would just be ‘facing reality’ to say that text-multi isn’t multi-line text - there are implementations (every library I’ve worked with, I think) that treats text-multi as a multi-line string (i.e. in support of what xep4 requires). I am sympathetic to the argument that we’ve gotten into a mess, but I don’t think getting out of it (given that 4 is Final) would be as simple as xep 4 changing semantics for text-multi - it’s not clear to me if that’s what being suggested, but if it is I think it would be painful. That said, XEPs building on top of XEPs by modifying or expanding underlying semantics (or syntax) by negotiation /is/ ok. /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
