Re: XEP-0175: Contact Addresses

Carlo v. Loesch wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre typeth:
> | vCard is not very extensible on this point -- we can
include a JabberID
> | via our hack of vcard-xml and I suppose that's OK.
Perhaps we can even
> | include multiple JabberIDs. 
> 
> What about a list of URIs, so you can put all
xmpp:jids, OpenID,
> and ahum URIs of other protocols in there next to each
other.
> Possibly in the order of preference, which otherwise
would be missing.

The vCard XML format does include a <URL/> element,
but I think that was
intended only for http URLs. Or something. IMHO vCard was
never very
well specified...

> Also I ran into a problem parsing this format, as it
isn't semantically
> equivalent to vCard:
> 
>    
<TEL><VOICE/><HOME/><NUMBER>303-555-
1212</NUMBER></TEL>
> 
> I can't access it using an XPath-kind of approach as I
could if it
> were written like this:
> 
>    
<TEL><VOICE><HOME><NUMBER>303-555-12
12</NUMBER></HOME></VOICE></TEL>
> 
> Regular vCard syntax is TEL;VOICE;HOME which gives me a
clear hierarchy
> and at the same time a simple string to access. I miss
that simplicity
> in XEP-0054.
> 
> I decided not to handle this special case and simply
return anything
> that has <NUMBER> in <TEL>, which may
randomly turn out to be a voice
> or fax number out of 5 possibly provided numbers. Not a
nice solution.
> 
> It's probably too late to fix this, but I can try to
ask anyway.

It's too late to fix this.

Peter

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