Re: [VCARDDAV] I-D Action:draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardrev-12.txt

["Javier Godoy" <[e-mail]>]

Markus Lorenz wrote:

> I've got another question concerning the LANGUAGE property examples.
>The following is an illegal example:
>
>    BIRTH;LANGUAGE=fr:Ville de Quebec
>    BIRTH:Quebec City
>
>Can I assume that if a LANGUAGE parameter is present, it MUST be present
>for every property representing the same data?

Yes. In this case it MUST be present because BIRTH is (0,1) and the omission 
of LANGUAGE makes the second ocurrence a different logical property.
Note however that the following example is legal because there are two 
instances of TITLE:

TITLE;LANGUAGE=fr:Patron
TITLE:Something else

>The specification says in "5.1. LANGUAGE":
>
>   Properties with different LANGUAGE parameters that represent the same
>   data count as 1 toward cardinality [...]
>
>From this one could assume that the same data could be represented by
>two entries of the same property with one present and one absent
>LANGUAGE parameter, because the LANGUAGE parameters are obviously
>different. The value for the absent LANGUAGE parameter (if needed at
>all) could come from the MIME header.

I think your interpretation is technically right, but I wouldn't like 
depending on an external MIME header in order to determine the validity of the 
vCard instance.
For instance, the following example would be legal only if Content-Language is 
different from "fr":
 BIRTH;LANGUAGE=fr:Ville de Quebec
 BIRTH:Quebec City

Perhaps we should require that [[
 Properties with no PID and no LANGUAGE parameters are logically different 
from any other property, thus each occurence count as 1 towards cardinality.
]]


Best Regards

Javier