I’m taking a closer look at this XEP because I’m wanting to write an XEP
using Collection Nodes, and I have a question:
Why are Collection nodes not allowed to contain items? I see many
use-cases for it and it doesn’t really introduce any additional
complexity: by doing a disco#items query on a collection node the
service would just return all the children nodes AND items. Items and
nodes can easily be distinguished by looking at the presence or not of
the “node” attribute in each item elements returned.
This would allow a lot of nice possibilities, like a graph of messages
(similar to a newsgroup message thread, with any level of depth).
Is there a reason why it is not allowed in the current state of the XEP?
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Florent Le Coz
