Re: XML Parsing libraries

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 01:04:56AM -0500, Jason Lustig wrote:
> Why not even use RDF instead of XML? We could use mozilla's rdf code... 
> and it would make it easier to associate aliases with screen names, but 
> making them independent of which account you use to converse with them. 
> (As it is now, if you have a buddy on one account, and have an alias for 
> it, but use another account to IM them, it will not show the alias but 
> the screen name)
> Jason

Aliases are associated to a specific buddy on a specifc account 
intentionally. There is no good way to be sure that LSchiere (on 
freenode irc) LSchiere (on gnome's irc server), LSchiere (aim), LSchiere 
(yahoo) and LSchiere (silc) are all the same real life person and thus 
should have that alias. in fact we have seen a specific instance where 
ewarmenhoven (aim) and ewarmenhoven (yahoo) are _not_. 

I believe we do allow you to set an alias on a contact however, since 
you have grouped that and identified it as a single person

luke


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