This is Jabber talking to Jabber: One end sends: gaim_conv_im_send(im, "MusicSharing: You can listen to my music at http://127.0.0.1:10333/"); The other ends receive in the signal 'message_received': MusicSharing: You can listen to my music at http://127.0.0.1:10333/ So i need to strip out the tags, to retreive the original sentence, i suppose ?