Re: Changing default file type for user tasks from ics to xml

Tim Lebedkov wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I plan to change the default file type for user entered tasks
> from ics to xml (see the DTD here
> http://tasklist.netbeans.org/source/browse/tasklist/usertasks/src/org/netbeans/modules/tasklist/usertasks/translators/usertasks-1_0.dtd?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup).
> 
> The main reasons for this are:
> - We do not support the whole ics standard and once
>     opened all unknown ics fields are stripped
> - XML format is better for auto generating HTML
>     during a build (Ant + XSL)
> - There are many features in user tasks (especially subtasks)
>     that are not supported by ics and we have to use
>     NB-specific fields

Still ics dominates in real world so you need to keep import
export. I suggest to carefully design xml indentation (and
attribute ordering) to simplify file sharing (and merging)
using version control systems. I could be big plus.

  Good idea
  Cc.

PS: Have you any programming experience with calendaring servers.
It could be the next step.

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