On 6/9/10 2:21 PM, "Alejandro R. Sedeño" wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 02:16 PM, Matthew Wild wrote:
>> 2010/6/9 "Alejandro R. Sedeño"<[email protected]>:
>>> A client I work on, BarnOwl [1], has been, perhaps incorrectly, using
>>> the former wording to allow for a<subject/>  element along with a
>>> <body/>  element to indicate a subject for the particular message,
>>> without changing the topic of MUC. This is used to emulate a feature
>>> that every IM since Zephyr [2] is lacking, which allows for multiple
>>> threaded conversations to exist in a single forum [3].
>>>
>>> I'm interested in getting feedback on this usage and perhaps getting it
>>> standardized.
>>
>> Can you not use<thread>?:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-xmpp-3921bis-06#section-5.2.5
> 
> No, thread is not quite right.
> 
> "The value of the <thread/> element is not human-readable and MUST be
> treated as opaque by entities; no semantic meaning can be derived from
> it, and only exact comparisons can be made against it. The value of the
> <thread/> element MUST be a universally unique identifier (UUID) as
> described in [UUID]."
> 
> We're looking for threading on topics like 'xmpp', 'cooking', 'physics',
> etc.

Right. I think you want to use both thread and subject.

Peter

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