Re: [VCARDDAV] KIND:group vs. KIND:org

"Javier Godoy" <rjgodoy@fich.unl.edu.ar> Tue, 13 July 2010 09:59 UTC

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On  Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:50 AM "Dan Brickley" wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Javier Godoy <rjgodoy@fich.unl.edu.ar> 
> wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> KIND:"org" means the vCard instance represents the organization itself. In
>> this case the organization name is given in ORG and there is no N property
>> (because there are no surnames or given names). In vCard 3.0 it was not
>> clear how to represent organizations, because the N property had always to
>> be present.
>>
>> KIND:"group" means the vCard represents a "group of individuals", such as a
>> mailing list, a set of contacts, etc. A group may have MEMBERs, while other
>> kinds of vCard can't.
>
> Is this recursive? Can the members of a group be groups?
>
> Dan

I think it is allowed (defining "group" as "group of individuals" was an 
oversimplification).  The value of MEMBER is a URI that is not required to 
identify a vCard of the "individual" KIND, hence I understand recursive groups 
are allowed. Moreover, it is not required to identify a vCard instance: it may 
be a resource other than a vCard (such as a mailto: URI).


Best Regards

Javier