I'm using the pidgin xmpp client and I want to send from java a hyperlink, I have all the code necessary to send messages, but when it comes to sending a hyperlink the only format that I can successfully send from java seems to be the raw url:
http://abc.xyz
This works fine but what I want is something more like:
Alphabet
I've tried using <a>
but that just comes out in the raw format again:
<a href="http://abc.xyz">Alphabet</a>
Edit:
I have written a client so I can read the raw format and it seems there are characters in the message that get escaped, notably <
goes to <
and >
goes to >
To send HTML formatted IM messages over XMPP you need to use XHTML-IM
to send your message.
Do that and pidgin should display it correctly.