Re: [evolution-patches] Support for XML in the save-calendar plugin

[Philip Van Hoof <spamfrommailing freax org>]

On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 17:50 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:18 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Second I implemented a simple implementation for the XML-format in
> > "xml-format.c". Currently the format is like this:
> 
> You might be interested in the ical RDF work here:
> 
>         http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/
>         
> It's similar to the standard RFC 2445 syntax and yours here so I don't
> think it'd be significantly more work, and would probably be preferable
> to creating a new syntax.

Indeed. It's not hard to support this RDF-format using the xml-format.c
implementation I've created.

Perhaps I will convert this to rdf someday myself. Else I kindly invite
anyone interested to do this. Please inform me about it first, to make
sure we are not duplicating work here.

I will probably implement it in rdf-format.c (and I will probably just
remove xml-format.c as with this rdf-format it's no longer really
interesting).

But first (and before I am going to put time in converting it to use
this RDF-format) I'd like to know whether or not the whole idea of
"exporting-to-many-formats" -functionality for this
"save-calendar"-plugin is a good idea and whether or not the current
state of what I submitted is usable: Perhaps there's plans to add
support for this RDF-format to libecal? In which case it doesn't sound
like a good idea to again implement it in a rdf-format.c just for the
"save-calendar"-plugin.


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