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Re:Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon by axod on Monday February 16, 2009 @03:46PM (#483575)
A quick skim of the Multi-User Chat though... Firstly, it's 9 years old :/ why is everyone still not using it? Secondly, you can immediately tell it's ridiculously over-engineered.

  <field var='muc#roominfo_occupants' label='Number of occupants'>
    <value>3</value>
  </field>
Sorry, but you can't really look at that protocol and say it's not ugly and verbose beyond reason. The number of occupants in a room is surely used enough to deserve an encoding of less than 75 characters to specify a number.
Re:Why XMPP Will Be Huge Very Soon by jay_kyburz on Monday February 16, 2009 @04:55PM (#483654)
Isn't that the whole problem with XML