Re: [VCARDDAV] <vcards> element

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 14 December 2010 22:11 UTC

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On 12/14/10 3:03 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2010-12-14 16:58, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Section 4 of draft-ietf-vcarddav-vcardxml-06 says:
>>
>>    A top-level <vcards> element is used as root.  It contains one or
>>    more <vcard> element, each representing a complete vCard.  The
>>    <vcards> element MUST be present even when only a single vCard is
>>    present in an XML document.
>>
>> Does the same mandate apply to technologies that re-use vCard4 (e.g., XMPP)?
> 
> If you want to restrict to a single <vcard> element, I see two options:
> 
> a. Use a <vcards> element as root, and add "MUST NOT contain more than
> one <vcard> element."
> b. Use a <vcard> element as root.
> 
> I guess it would be safer to go with a., but I'm not aware of all your
> constraints...

We'd probably prefer (b), because that's how we do things now:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0054.html

But we're working on a replacement for that and will figure out how
we'll do it soon...

Peter

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