Re: [VCARDDAV] LANGUAGE parameter vs. cardinality and PIDs

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

On 2010-04-07 08:41, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> One big question is what would the UID values be for all the
> "alternative" cards? Are they all the same or different.

I was assuming they would be different...

 > But the
> definition of UID in the draft implies that it is unique to "the
> individual or resource associated with the vCard" - which would suggest
> that the alternatives all have the same UID.

We can fix that description easily enough.

> So the idea of "alternative" vCards for language is problematic.

I'm not convinced of that yet.

Isn't it basically the same idea as having alternative sub-components 
like in iCalendar?

> However, one issue with the current scheme is dealing with items with
> cardinality > 1. For example I could today have multiple ORG properties
> with different LANGUAGE parameters. Does that mean they are
> alternatives, or separate? To resolve that ambiguity there would need to
> be a unique identifier on properties that would be the same on LANGUAGE
> alternatives.

Yes! That's a big problem that would be solved by replacing the LANGUAGE 
parameter with a LANGUAGE property.

Simon
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