Re: [VCARDDAV] Embedding XML in vCard

[Simon Perreault <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>]

Simon Perreault wrote, on 2009-10-20 13:17:
> Here's a first proposal for embedding XML in vCard, as discussed at IETF 75 in
> Stockholm.

I just realized that I had forgotten about Joe Hildebrand's proposal, which I
even replied to at the time! Sorry about that.

The differences are:

- Base64 encoding vs. plain text with escaping for backslashes and newlines. I
would prefer plain text whenever possible. In this case it's clearly possible.

- The use of an container <extensions> element vs. no container element. I still
don't fully understand the need for a container element.

- The use of a media type that is set to "text/xml" vs. implicit XML. I would
prefer implicit XML to keep it simple. If it turns out that it's such a good
idea that it needs extending to other media types, we'll do something about it
then. But I seriously doubt it. After all, the goal is to migrate to XML, not to
keep adding stuff to the old vCard format.

- A property cardinality of (0,1) vs. (0,n). I don't have a strong opinion on this.

Simon
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