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Re: Registration of media type application/calendar+xml

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Fri, 10 September 2010 13:50 UTC

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:50:47 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Registration of media type application/calendar+xml
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Hi Julian,

--On September 10, 2010 12:11:27 PM +0200 Julian Reschke 
<julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

>> If your programmer is spending 70% of his coding time dealing with a
>> presentation layer, even one as convoluted as iCalendar, you should fire
>> him. It's not like regular expression parsers are hard to come by these
>> days. Nor are libraries that can parse standard formats hard to come by.
>
> Can iCalendar be parsed reliably with regexps? (just asking).

The Python vobject library that we use in our CalDAV server 
(http://calendarserver.org) does use regular expressions for parsing entire 
lines (after applying line "unfolding" of the overall text object), and 
then parsing out pieces of those. That is used for both iCalendar and vCard.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo

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