MsgFmt

I am deeply conflicted about the MsgFmt issue.  On one hand, if the
use of XML for instant message headers is too verbose, than why is it
not too verbose for presence information?  Given that many
IMPP-compliant software components will want to process presence
information in its native format, these components will have an XML
parser.  Why require yet another parser?

On the other hand, I have yet to read about an issue that was not
raised a year or so ago.  After much debate, we decided not to use XML
for instant messages.  I see no reason to reopen the debate unless
something has changed.  Has anyone found it difficult to implement a
MsgFmt parser?  I confess I have not tried.

John



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