Re: Polls

Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2025 09:49:22 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

I have also been thinking about implementing polls for some time. For polls 
in the context of a chat (1:1 or MUC) this is my proposal:

XEP-0004 says the following:

> The <x/> element qualified by the 'jabber:x:data' namespace SHOULD be 
> included either directly as a first-level child of a <message/> stanza or 
> ...

> The full context for the data is provided by three things ... the place of 
> the form within ... structured conversation (e.g., a message <thread/>)

> For <message/> stanzas, the <thread/> SHOULD be copied in the reply if 
> provided. The <x/> element qualified by the 'jabber:x:data' namespace MUST 
> be a child of the <message/> stanza.

This gives us a very natural poll transport mechanism, as follows:

	<message id="poll1" type="groupchat" from="romeo">
		<x xmlns="jabber:x:data" type="form">
			<field var="FORM_TYPE" type="hidden"><value>urn:...polls</value></field>
			<field var="q" label="A or B?" type="list-single">
				<option><value>A</value></option>
				<option><value>B</value></option>
			</field>
		</x>
		<thread>poll-uuid</thread>
	</message>

	<message id="pollresponse1" type="groupchat" from="juliet">
		<x xmlns="jabber:x:data" type="submit">
			<field var="FORM_TYPE" type="hidden"><value>urn:...polls</value></field>
			<field var="q" label="A or B?" type="list-single">
				<value>A</value>
			</field>
		</x>
		<thread>poll-uuid</thread>
	</message>

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