Re: zogi - birthDate attribute of Contact

> > I'm not sure what to suggest.  As Helge intimates, using 1001-01-01  
> > is a
> > hack, but then probably any solution to this is going to be a hack.   
> > What
> > does OGO's original xml-rpc binding do with empty date values?
> Good question, I think it would probably omit the value from the XML- 
> RPC record. Which of course the obvious solution! After all its a  
> record, null is not needed in this case anyways, just remove the  
> birthday key.

Interesting;  don't know why that possibility never occurred to me.

> Except for uploads, in this case it could be represented as an empty  
> string, I would assume that a SOPE XML-RPC frontend deals well with  
> other datatypes (-isNotEmpty etc). Don't know how zOGi is implemented.

Hmmm. I think it does.  This might actually relate to a bug in the old
XML-RPC code which made it impossible to blank a value; much to the
consternation of my users. :)

zOGI doesn't do anything specifically to the XML-RPC request or
response,  SOPE does all the coding/decoding automatically (unlike the
old XML-RPC daemon which has more specific coders & decoders).  zOGI
just makes an NSDictionary and gives it to SOPE to serialize and send to
the client.

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