Re: Should XEP features with apparent impact be hidden to older clients?

Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.jabber.standards-jig
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Somebody claiming to be Schimon Jehudah wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:04:37 -0500
>Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> >I was wondering whether some features, which have visual impact on
>> >messages, should have XML Namespaces (xmlns).
>>
>> This is already how everything works.
>
>Sorry. I was not aware of it. I changed the title.
>
>So, how is it that older clients *do* display contents of elements with
>xmlns that is not supported?

They don't. Most XMPP apps for most features choose to intentionally add 
"fall back" content, that is content in more widely-supported namespaces. In 
order to avoid having apps miss some content only because it is in a format 
they don't understand.

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