Re: [VCARDDAV] Comments on vCard XML Schema

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

On 2009-11-29 21:38, Renato Iannella wrote:
> - A this is a RelaxNG Schema, the title should be renamed to reduce
> confusion with any "XML Schema" representation

How about "vCard XML Representation"?

> - is there an XML Scheme version planned?

No. It is easy to convert from Relax NG to XML Schema using Trang 
<http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html>.

> - why is the "type" of the element content contained in the content
> model. eg <text>...</text>
> (this seems to make it more verbose)

Because

- We need a tag anyway because we have parameters. We can't just do this:

<email>
<parameters><type>work</type></parameters>
[e-mail]
</email>

- A tag per value type is easier to manipulate/validate/parse than a 
generic <value> tag whose content depends on the enclosing tag.

> - was the <type> element considered as an attribute of the parent
> element? (less verbosity)

Yes, but the type parameter takes a list of values. We could do:

<tel type="work,cell">...

But it's harder to grep/manipulate/parse/validate than separate elements.

Note that in the next revision we will have this instead:

<tel><parameters><type>work</type><type>cell</type></parameters>...

Simon
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