RE: [Ietf-caldav] Re: iCalendar to XML transform

"Kervin L. Pierre" <kervin@adevsoft.com> Tue, 14 November 2006 02:03 UTC

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From: "Kervin L. Pierre" <kervin@adevsoft.com>
Subject: RE: [Ietf-caldav] Re: iCalendar to XML transform
To: "Zbarcea, Hadrian" <hzbarcea@iona.com>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, Tim Hare <TimHare@comcast.net>
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Hello,

--- "Zbarcea, Hadrian" <hzbarcea@iona.com> wrote:
> To make a long story short I do have an xml schema
> that maps iCal to XML
> and started to work on a parser that reads iCal and
> emits SAX/StAX.

I did one too, a while back, though mine was
a trivial DTD->Schema conversion.  I would
love to see the schema you came up with.

> submit it again.  I consider it near complete, it is
> my work, but it's
> public domain, no strings attached.  If anybody is
> interesting in
> helping me with the parsing/web services stuff
> that'd be great.

I'd be interested in supporting it in
my applications if it gains some
support.

What might be needed right now is a
'grass-roots' effort to get a grammer
off the ground and hopefully standardised
at some point when there has been
enough interest raised.  Maybe get a
website up, some documentation, and a
few projects supporting it as an alternate
calendar representation.  I can help with
some of that if needed.

> Adapting existing parsers to produce valid xml
> according to this schema
> would work too.
> 

I'd love to help with an implementation
but it would probably be a Win32
libical modification at this point due
to my resource constraints.

Best regards,
Kervin


> Regards,
> Hadrian
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ietf-caldav-bounces@osafoundation.org
> [mailto:ietf-caldav-
> > bounces@osafoundation.org] On Behalf Of Kervin L.
> Pierre
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 11:53 AM
> > To: Norman Walsh; Tim Hare
> > Cc: ietf-caldav@osafoundation.org
> > Subject: Re: [Ietf-caldav] Re: iCalendar to XML
> transform
> > 
> > 
> > --- Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM> wrote:
> > > function that could load the file. An easier
> > > solution might be to write
> > > a simple pre-processor in your favorite
> scripting
> > > language to turn the
> > > .iCal into trivial XML. You could just wrap the
> > 
> > I agree.  And as more and more people are going
> > to be doing this to leverage the tons of XML
> > code/apps/technologies out there standardising
> > this iCalendar grammer will become increasingly
> > important.
> > 
> > Does this relate to...
> >
>
http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-hare-xcalendar/
> > in anyway?
> > 
> > Is anything happening with xCal?
> >
>
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03
> > 
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/NOTE-rdfcal-20050929/ ?
> > 
> > Would be nice if one of those grammers gained some
> > some momentum... :)
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Kervin
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