> That said, a minimal protocol addition like this, which just provides an element to wrap serialized JSON for payloads, definitely help with minimizing that DO

> That said, a minimal protocol addition like this, which just provides an element to wrap serialized JSON for payloads, definitely help with minimizing that DOM pain. I will propose standardizing this as a (very short) XEP (XMPP Extension Protocol) with the XMPP Standards Foundation. Someone agrees with me! I didn't find much support when I did exactly this last year, so I didn't push it forward, but: https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/xep-json.html https://matthewwild.co.uk/uploads/xep-json.html