[Opensync-devel] xmlformat plugin and timestamp formats

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

Hi,

Considering that the xmlformat is based on the vformat RFCs, is it
proper to assume that the formats of each field are also limited to
the RFCs?

For example, take a DTSTART timestamp, which can be:

	20100810T100000Z

But *cannot* be:

	2010-08-10T10:00:00Z

Due to the specification of iCalendar which says:

	"There are no separator characters between the year, month and day
	component text."
	   - section 4.3.4
	     http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#page-34

Even though this is a valid ISO 8601 timestamp:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Has any thought been given to the actual format of the timestamp for the
xmlformat versions of fields like DateStart?  The reason I ask, is because
Google calendar is fairly strict about using ISO 8601 with dashes and colons,
while vformat is pretty strict about using its own variant of ISO 8601
without them.  I just want to know where I should be converting things.
I think the best place is either in the vformat plugin or xmlformat
plugin, or both.

Thanks,
- Chris