Re: [VCARDDAV] Embedding XML in vCard

[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>]

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On 10/20/09 2:39 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Peter Saint-Andre wrote, on 2009-10-20 16:22:
>> Why not specify that the element allowed in the "XML" property is
>> <vcard> (which naturally can contain any of its defined children)?
> 
> Two reasons come to mind:
> 
> - A <vcard> element semantically contains a complete vCard. What the XML
> property contains is a partial vCard.

I'm wondering why the XML property contains a partial vCard. :)

> - Why add it when it doesn't fix the following?

<snip type='evil'/>

I see your point. However, my feeling is that the proper relationship
between a vCard and the XML property is similar to the relationship
between the TXT and HTML encodings of an email message. Perhaps that
feeling is misplaced.

Peter

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