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XMPP: The Definitive Guide

Errata for XMPP: The Definitive Guide

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page 111
4th bullet from the bottom

notify_delete corresponds to node deletion, rather than item deletion.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Correct, notify_delete corresponds to node deletion (and for the purposes of notification, there is no such thing as item "deletion" because that is covered by the notify_retract configuration setting). To fix this errata, we need to change "when an item is deleted" to "when a node is deleted" in the referenced bullet point.

Anonymous  Dec 28, 2009 
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Page 135
Additional Jingle Actions, 'content-remove' item

The last sentence says "The content-replace action [...]", which should "The content-remove action [...]".

Note from the Author or Editor:
In the bullet point for the "content-remove" action, the last clause mentions the "content-replace" action but this needs to be corrected to "content-remove".

Remko Tronçon
 
Sep 11, 2009 
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Page 168
Example authentication stanza

The Base64-encoded string "AGFsaWNlAHBhc3N3b3JkCg==" in the authentication example should become "AGFsaWNlAHBhc3N3b3Jk".

Remko Tronçon
 
Sep 11, 2009 
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Page 258
Libraries - Actinscript

Book states: "The only XMPP library for ActionScript is as3xmpp", which is not true as XIFF (http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/xiff/index.jsp) has been available for many years and it is used in the Sparkweb client which is mentioned in the top of the same page.

Note from the Author or Editor:
The categories for "(Adobe) Flash" and "ActionScript" should be combined in any future edition of the book, since the terms are overlapping because ActionScript is a scripting language for use in the context of the Adobe Flash technology.

Juga Paazmaya  Jul 30, 2009 
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Page 50
Figure 4-2

Chat state transitions are listed differently as the specification does.
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0085.html
From

Note from the Author or Editor:
A transition arrow is missing from the 'Paused' state to the 'Active' state.

Juga Paazmaya  Jul 30, 2009 
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Page 169
first paragraph

Page 169 says,

Note from the Author or Editor:
The first sentence of the first paragraph should become:

"Immediately following the notification of succesful authentication, the client resets the session by sending a new stream header, after which the server responds with a new stream header (with a new Stream ID). This time, however, the server announces different stream features:"

Bill Lovett  Jul 10, 2009 
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Page 221
Example 14-5

Remko Tronçon
 
Jul 10, 2009 
Printed
Page 106

I wonder, if the usage of the discovery method "disco#items" is appropriate to perform a query for information about the mentioned weblog, which is a leaf node?

Note from the Author or Editor:
The examples on page 106 use the wrong namespace -- it should be "disco#info" instead of "disco#items. The node type is immaterial here, but we are trying to query for detailed node information, not the items associated with the node. This appears to be a copy-and-paste error.

Anonymous  Jul 02, 2009 
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Page 9
2nd paragraph

"Much of this software is linked to from http://xmpp.org/, and we provide an overview of some of the most popular codebases in Appendix C."

Appendix C does not contain the type of content it is referring to. This should point to Appendix B.

BrandonJWSmith  Jun 22, 2009 
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Page 242
6th paragraph

In the description of "XEP-0158", there is a redundant word "defines".
"This defines defines a method for ...."

Anonymous  Jun 10, 2009 
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Page -
Biographies

Remko's biography is outdated. He is no longer the lead developer of the Psi Jabber/XMPP client, but a developer for Swift. The biography at the end of the book is correct.

Remko Tronçon
 
May 15, 2009 
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Page 33
Figure 3-2

The two bottom arrows point in the wrong direction.

Remko Tronçon
 
May 15, 2009