Re: Reinstating XHTML-IM (XEP-0071)

Schimon Jehudah via Standards <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:51:59 +0200
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Andrew. Greetnigs.

If so needed, we can improve the specified "fallback" or specify a new
one.

Also, the specification of XHTML-IM has a SELECTION of allowed tags,
not all tags are accepted (e.g. </table> is not defined).

So, we might want to reduce the allowed tags, at the very best.

Regards,
Schimon

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:29:24 +0500
Andrew Nenakhov <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was once appalled when this xep was deprecated with no viable
> replacement, but that was a long time ago and its ship has sailed:
> Since then we moved to formatting based on references, which also
> provides a nice way for a fallback to clients that don't support them.
> 
> Fallback for this one, however, requires including a full alternative
> message body, which looks very ugly to me, and it gets even more ugly
> if we want to save/forward this message. Also, I remember endless
> complaints about html tags in messages from users who communicated
> with Pidgin, which at the time did put tags right in <body>
> 
> So no, I prefer it to stay as it is.
> 
> (Message styling as described in XEP-0393 is also not a very good
> idea that uses input format as a wire format)
> 
> On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 at 06:28, Schimon Jehudah via Standards <
> [email protected]> wrote:  
> 
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I am not an XSF member, yet I am interested to reinstate XHTML-IM.
> >
> > I have useful ideas that would be possible with XHTML-IM.
> >
> > Nevertheless, even without new ideas, I deem that XEP-0071 should be
> > reinstated with added security concerns;
> >
> > Email software also handle (X)HTML, and so many other software,
> > while implementing security measures; and
> >
> > Therefore, I deem that, XEP-0071 should be reinstated.
> >
> > Kind reagrds,
> > Schimon
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