Roster Item Exchange

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Roster Item Exchange This specification provides canonical documentation of the jabber:x:roster namespace historically used within the Jabber community. NOTE WELL: This specification has been superseded by XEP-0144. &LEGALNOTICE; 0093 Deprecated Historical Standards XMPP Core XMPP IM XEP-0144 x-roster http://www.xmpp.org/schemas/x-roster.xsd &stpeter; 1.2 2005-08-26 psa Per advancement of XEP-0144 by the Jabber Council, changed status to Deprecated. 1.1 2004-02-24 psa Corrected several small textual errors. 1.0 2003-10-08 psa Per a vote of the Jabber Council, changed status to Active. 0.1 2003-05-22 psa Initial version.

The Jabber protocols have long included a method for sending roster items to another entity. This method makes use of the 'jabber:x:roster' namespace and has been documented variously in Internet-Drafts and elsewhere. Because this protocol is not required by &rfc2779;, the 'jabber:x:roster' namespace was removed from &xmppim;. This specification fills the void for canonical documentation.

NOTE WELL: This document has been superseded by &xep0144;.

The 'jabber:x:roster' namespace (which is not to be confused with the 'jabber:iq:roster' namespace) is used to send roster items from one Jabber entity to another. A roster item is sent by adding to the <message/> element an <x/> child scoped by the 'jabber:x:roster' namespace. This <x/> element MUST contain at least one <item/> child elements (one for each roster item to be sent).

Each <item/> element may possess the following attributes:

jid -- The Jabber Identifier of the contact being sent. This attribute is REQUIRED.
name -- A natural-language nickname for the contact. This attribute is OPTIONAL.

Each <item/> element MAY also contain one or more <group/> children specifying the natural-language name of a user-specified group, for the purpose of categorizing this contact into one or more roster groups.

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There are no security features or concerns related to this proposal.

This document requires no interaction with &IANA;.

The 'jabber:x:roster' namespace is registered in the protocol namespaces registry maintained by the ®ISTRAR;.





  
    
      The protocol documented by this schema is defined in
      XEP-0093: http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0093.html

      NOTE WELL: This protocol has been superseded by XEP-0144
      http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0144.html
    
  

  
    
      
        
      
    
  

  
    
      
        
      
      
      
    
  


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