[Ietf-calsify] What's the status of xCal?

[cmtalbert at gmail.com (Clint Talbert)]

Hi Tim,

I would also be interested in this draft and the stylesheet to transform 
iCalendar to XML.

Thanks,

Clint Talbert

Tim Hare wrote:
> I haven't updated by draft lately on guidelines for using XML with calendar
> information, but I still have the latest draft if you want it. It wasn't
> xcalendar per se but had a lot of stuff from the original draft; also had
> some stylesheet examples (which you probably don't need).  I also have in
> final stages of development a stylesheet to take a string containing an
> iCalendar file and transform it into XML. 
>
>
> Tim Hare
> Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.
>
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> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Reinhold
> Kainhofer
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 5:28 AM
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> Subject: [Ietf-calsify] What's the status of xCal?
>
> Hi,
> I'm currently implementing an export function in KOrganizer that uses XSLT
> transformations to create easier output in several formats and even allows
> XSL-FO to be used for printing. For this, I need an intermediary XML format,
> and xCalendar comes in quite handy here. 
>
> However, I could only find expired drafts on the net (with various different
> namespace URIs used, so I'm not sure which is the current one). So what's
> the status of xCal?
> I found the draft
>        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-royer-calsch-xcal-03
> using "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xcal", but not using the namespace prefix
> consistently, so most of the elements are NOT in that namespace :-( (Older
> drafts use the namespace "http://ietf.org/rfc/rfcXXXX.txt", and they employ
> the xCal: prefix consistently).
> I also found the older calsch-many, but that's obviously a deprecated draft.
>
>
> Of course, once I have implemented several xsl stylesheets (maybe even to
> xsl-fo for printing/exporting a calendar to PDF in various layouts), these
> transformations won't be restricted to KOrganizer, but can be used with any
> xCalendar file produced by any application that is able to export to
> xCalendar (which are not many currently...).
>
> So is there any decision on the XML representation of iCal? Or is this dead
> and I need to come up with my own XML and other applications won't be able
> to use my stylesheets, because we don't have a standardized XML
> representation, only self-cooked ones?
>
> Thanks,
> Reinhold
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
> email: [e-mail], http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
>  * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien,
> http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
>  * K Desktop Environment, http://www.kde.org, KOrganizer maintainer
>  * Chorvereinigung "Jung-Wien", http://www.jung-wien.at/
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