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-Pontarius XMPP is an active work in progress to build a Haskell XMPP library
-that implements the client capabilities of RFC 6120 ("XMPP Core").
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+Welcome to Pontarius XMPP!
+==========================
+
+Pontarius XMPP is an active work in progress to build a Haskell XMPP library
+that implements the client capabilities of [RFC 6120 ("XMPP
+Core")](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6120).
+
+Getting started
+---------------
+
+The latest release of Pontarius XMPP, as well as its module API pages, can
+always be found at [the Pontarius XMPP Hackage
+page](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pontarius-xmpp/).
+
+_Note:_ Pontarius XMPP is still in its Alpha phase. Pontarius XMPP is not yet
+feature-complete, it may contain bugs, and its API may change between versions.
+
+The first thing to do is to import the <code>Network.Xmpp</code> module.
+
+    import Network.Xmpp
+
+When this is done, a <code>Session</code> object can be acquired by calling
+<code>session</code>. This object will be used for interacting with the library.
+
+    result <- session
+                 "example.com"
+                  def
+                  (Just ([scramSha1 "user" Nothing "Password"], Nothing))
+
+_Tip:_ Note that the first parameter actually is a Text value. Import
+<code>Data.Text</code> and use the OverloadedStrings LANGUAGE pragma.
+
+The three parameters above are the XMPP server realm, the session configuration
+settings (set to the default settings), and a SASL handler (for authentication).
+<code>session</code> will perform the necessary DNS queries to find the address
+of the realm, connect, establish the XMPP stream, attempt to secure the stream
+with TLS, authenticate, establish a concurrent interface for interacting with
+the stream, and return the <code>Session</code> object.
+
+The return type of <code>session</code> is <code>IO (Either XmppFailure
+(Session, Maybe AuthFailure))</code>. As <code>XmppFailure</code> is an
+<code>Control.Monad.Error</code> instance, you can utilize the
+<code>ErrorT</code> monad transformer for error handling. A more simple way of
+doing it could be doing something like this:
+
+    sess <- case result of
+                Right (sess, Nothing) -> sess
+                Right (_sess, e) -> error "AuthFailure: " ++ (show e)
+                Left e -> error "XmppFailure: " ++ (show e)
+
+Next, let us set our status to Online.
+
+    sendPresence presenceOnline sess
+
+Now, let's say that we want to receive all message stanzas, and echo the stanzas
+back to the recipient. This can be done like so:
+
+    forever $ do
+        msg <- getMessage sess
+        sendMessage (answerIM (bodies msg) [] msg) sess
+        let sender = show . fromJust $ messageFrom msg
+        let contents = maybe "nothing" Text.unpack $ body msg
+        printf "%s says \"%s\"\n" sender contents
+
+Additional XMPP threads can be created using <code>dupSession</code> and
+<code>forkIO</code>.
+
+For a public domain example of a simple Pontarius XMPP (Cabal) project, refer to
+the examples/echoclient directory.
+
+More information
+----------------
+
+Feel free to [contact Jon Kristensen](http://www.jonkri.com/contact/) if you
+have any questions or comments.