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Added a workaround for receiving smileys from Jabbim, which uses the "cid" string as the "alt" attribute on <img/>s resulting in the smiley shortcut being formatted as a mailto: link. This reformats incoming shortcuts if the are formed as email addresses. Also, we don't need to escape the incoming text, as it is an XML attribute

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.