Re: xCalendar draft revision submitted

[email protected] wrote:

> This draft allows for "one-way" implementations where you can go from 
> XML to iCalendar, but not (easily, at least) back the other way.

That is not acceptable.  If there is to be an XML representation of 
iCalendar, it must be a 1-1 transform, so that it can be converted in 
both directions, even by an application that doesn't know all the 
extensions used.

> I decided to require the XSL transformation because XSL was designed 
> to work with XML and many programs already support it.

That's not a reason to require it; it's a reason not to object to it.  
And, frankly, it's a false reason; it may be true that many large suites 
such as Evolution already have XSLT libraries linked in, but that's only 
a tiny fraction of the codebase that could benefit from speaking iCalendar.

>
> Tim Hare
> Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.
>
> At 12:19 PM 5/10/04, you 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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