[Opensync-users] Some thoughts about Sync of Psion & Symbian

[Joachim L. <Jo...@la...>]

Hi,

a few weeks / months ago I stared to write a sync application to sync=20
Psion PDAs and Symbian based phones with KOrganizer.
Now that I have a first shot ready for public testing I found out about=20
OpenSync. I realised that OpenSync is a nice framework for the task I=20
wanted to achieve and it's probably much more stable and feature rich=20
at this time than my programs will ever be.

So I thought it'd be better to halt my development and try to get a=20
Psion/Symbian plugin ready. I know there's a lot of work for SyncML=20
which is supported on some Symbian phones but Psion does not support=20
SyncML.

As the file format of the Psion/Symbian Applications is not publically=20
known and may change in the future, programmers are supposed to access=20
the data files through the APIs provided by Symbian.

=46rom what I found out so far it should't be hard to write a=20
client-server application, where the Psion application communicates=20
with the plugin to transfer the data.

The Symbian-API provides import and export of vCalendar-Files (Version=20
1.0); however it seems to be pretty buggy. Time values are pretty messy=20
and reptetitions and alarms seem to be faulty.
As I don't know much about the vCalendar file format I would prefer to=20
convert the data to the XML-format used by OpenSync as an interchange=20
format. However I haven't found any documentation on that format.

Is there some documentation on that XML-Format available?=20
Is there a definition/list of attributes for Events, Todos, Contacts,=20
etc?

Looking forward to get into coding. ;-)

Bye Jo