Re: [Ietf-carddav] Comments on draft-daboo-carddav-02

Julian Reschke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.webdav
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> The problem is mapping vCard "properties" on to WebDAV "properties". We 
> had the same problem in iCalendar which is why CalDAV does not do that. 
> One issue is how to represent multiple instances of the same property - 
> in vCard/iCalendar certainly properties can appear more than once, yet 
> WebDAV only allows one property of an element type per resource. Yes you 
> could do things with list elements but it starts to get messy - so we 
> avoided it. It would also mean inventing an XML representation of the 
> data - we certainly did not want to go down that route with CalDAV at 
> the time.

But aren't you already doing that with the calendar-data pseudo 
property? It just has a bigger granularity (the whole entry, rather than 
a subset).

Best regards, Julian
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