Re: [Opensync-users] Plugin for gnokii

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

David Eriksson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:02 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>
>>Le 26 avr. 05, à 09:33, David Eriksson a écrit :
>>
>>
>>>I also think you should use the XML format. For contacts it is
>>>basically
>>>the vCard properties but in XML, but using the XML format will make you
>>>independent of vCard parsing and such.
>>>
>>>The best documentation is the xml-vcard.c source code ... :-)
>>
>>I am very interested by XML based formats for PIM tools. Is this code
>>following some XML-vcard standard?
>
>
> As far as I know, the XML is just meant to properly represent anything
> that a "MIME directory" (RFC something) can contain, with named tags for
> known properties (RFC this and that for vCard, vEvent, vTodo).
>

Thats basically right. But it is not supposed to only represent the mime
dir related content, but "all" content available (read: the information
stored in the xml-contact is the set union of the information available
on all other formats). Therefore this format will be somewhat dynamical
and will change over time.

> I plan to patch xml-vcard.c to use these #defines instead of the
> literals for the tag names:
>
>   http://www.2good.nu/blandat/opensync-xml-contact.h
>
> However, Armin rewrote xml-vcard.c before I comitted the work I had
> done, and I havent updated it yet...

ups. didnt know about this patch when i made my changes, sorry! Ill try
to do the fixes when i find some time.
see: http://www.opensync.org/ticket/82

>
> If someone has more time to spare than I, feel free to submit a patch!
>