Re: [VCARDDAV] iCalendar-in-XMlL updated

[Cyrus Daboo <[e-mail]>]

Hi Peter,

--On May 18, 2011 11:43:59 AM -0600 Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]> 
wrote:

>> One other thing, we ended up changing the date and time XML value
>> formats to be more inline with the format used in XML schema:
>> specifically adding "-" separators between the date components and ":"
>> separators between the time components. This change was prompted by
>> feedback from developers who wanted to be able to reuse xsd date/time
>> types for validation and processing. This seemed like a reasonable
>> request so we made the change. I would have thought a similar situation
>> exists for vcard-in-XML so we may want to consider that.
>
> You might want to say exactly that. For example:
>
>    Description:  iCalendar "DATE" property values are represented by the
>       IC:date XML element.  The content of the element is the same date
>       value specified by [RFC5545], with the exception that the date
>       components are separated by "-" characters for consistency with
>       [W3C.REC-xmlschema-2-20041028].

The last paragraph in section 3.1 does mention XML schema, but if you want 
that repeated in each of the value definitions that would be fine too. I'll 
make that editorial change in my working copy and we can add an RFCEditor 
note for those if another rev of the document is not needed after IESG 
review.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo