Re: GnuCash as server [WAS: Re: GnuCash page on GO site]

[Tim Wunder <tim thewunders org>]

On 2/26/2004 12:01 PM, I believe that Josh Sled wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:52:31AM -0600, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>
> | On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:31:40AM -0500, Josh Sled was heard to remark:
> | > Or the evolution people can do a GET against gnucashd to get upcoming
> | > scheduled transactions and invoice-due-dates info for the summary page.
>
> [The context, here, is GnuCash-as-HTTP[RESTful]-server, from private ramblings. :)]
>
> | If you can find an industry standard xml markup for representing
> | calander appointments (which is how I like to think of scheduled
> | transactions ... something like a recurring meeting notice), 
> | would be great.  If you could convince the evolution folks to use 
> | that industry-standard calander markup as thier communications 
> | protocol, then we're almost home free.  But I suspect there is
> | none-such.
>
> iCalendar [RFC 2445] - http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/rfc2445
>
> [or, better IMHO, RDF Calendar, http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ , which
>  builds on it].
>
> Evolution already uses iCalendar, so it's all good. :)

And Mozilla and Korganizer and Outlook (I hear, anyway...)
But it's not XML markup, is it?

Tim