Re: xCalendar draft revision submitted

Gary Frederick wrote:

>
> apples and oranges
>
> I used the drafty XML version of xCal to come up with the XSLT that 
> Mozilla and others have used. I had XSLT that could translate to iCal 
> to make sure I had good stuff. The XML was nice for building web pages 
> etc.

Enabling XSLT is a far cry from requiring it.

>
> Worked great.
>
> Good luck Tim. A standard for calendar data expressed in XML is a good 
> thing and could be used all over the place.
>
> Gary (who has no time to follow up :-( )
>
>
> John Stracke wrote:
>
>>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> I took as a basic approach that a document could be an XML calendar 
>>> document if it had any sort of calendaring information in XML, but 
>>> that to be xCalendar compliant it must provide an XSLT transform 
>>> that can create an iCalendar text file;
>>
>>
>>
>> XSLT is pretty heavyweight.  Why not just make the XML a 1-1 
>> rendition of the text/calendar?
>>
>


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