XMPP: Composing events and <id/> tags

[Etan Reisner]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:03:34PM -0500, Mark Doliner wrote:
> What?  The spec talks about the 'id' in both places.  The except you pasted is
> from the section ABOVE the one that linked to by you and Evan.  I don't think
> Evan was asking about the 'id' attribte on the message stanza, I think he was
> asking about the 'id' tag within the <x xmlns='jabber:x:event'> tag.

I love how the link I pasted went to a different place before, stupid
firefox, I love when it has problems scrolling to the correct location.

Given the correct section yes, the id attribute is irrelevant to the
discussion here. The id element seems to be required on all events we send
(should be composing and displayed I believe) so we should fix that.

<snip>

> > > But it's kinda minor.  It would be easier to just remove support for XEP-0022,
> > > since it's superseded by XEP-0085 anyway.
> >
> > I haven't followed any Standards-JIG type stuff for a while but last
> > I was paying attention I thought this was a hotly debated issue
> > since while they overlap they don't both hit all of the same points.
> > Is that no longer the case?
>
> I wasn't aware of that.  If that's true then fixing it is definitely a better
> idea than removing it.

Like I said, I haven't been keeping up recently, but I seem to recall that
being the state of things when I last was.

Nathan, Sean either of you happen to know offhand?

    -Etan