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Re: [Jcardcal] jCard round-tripping with unknown value types

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Mon, 15 April 2013 08:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jcardcal] jCard round-tripping with unknown value types
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Le 2013-04-15 10:29, Bert Greevenbosch a écrit :
> My reasoning is: since the naming implies that the value type is
> unknown, it could be anything unknown, whether default or not. I
> could e.g. imagine a conversion from a third party format into jCard.
> The conversion tool could be tempted to use "unknown" for any
> unsupported formats in the third party format, whether default or
> not.

Right. So the jCard text would need to be carefully crafted to indicate
that the use is precisely to represent "unknown default" value types,
not just any kind of unknown.

> The fact that the <unknown> property value already exists in xCard
> makes a good case for using the same name in jCard.

That's my thinking too.

Simon

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