Re: [VCARDDAV] CardDAV + xCard in query response

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

Hi Simon,

--On June 13, 2011 2:49:45 PM -0400 Simon Perreault 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav-10#section-10.4 ,
>> the address-data corresponding to a REPORT response is defined as:
>>
>>        <!ELEMENT address-data (#PCDATA)>
>>        <!-- PCDATA value: address data -->
>>
>> (and the same section contains two paragraph explaining how to deal with
>> CDATA).
>>
>> If I understand this definition correctly, this more or less prevents
>> the use of xCard as the returned format.
>
> Well, no matter what the schema says, the text itself prevents xCard
> from being used. If I understand correctly, CardDAV specifies vCard 3,
> mentions that v4 is compatible, and that's it. I guess we'll need a new
> 1-page RFC to specify xCard inside CardDAV...

Actually the server can advertise support for xCard via the 
CARDDAV:supported-address-data property at which point it is in theory OK 
for the client to send that. Obviously the schema for the address-data 
element would need to be tweaked to allow "embedded" XML, and maybe we have 
a one page spec to do that (actually perhaps two pages as we should deal 
with this for CalDAV too).

-- 
Cyrus Daboo