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

[Josh Sled <jsled-gnomeoffice asynchronous org>]

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. :)

...jsled
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