Registration of media type application/calendar+xml

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Ned,

--On September 10, 2010 7:48:26 AM -0700 Ned Freed <ned.freed at mrochek.com> 
wrote:

> Unfortunately, now that I've had a chance to look at
> draft-daboo-et-al-icalendar-in-xml-06.txt a little more, I find that it
> doesn't do this well. For example, instead of mapping a property like
> dtstamp to something like:
>
>     <property name="dtstart">
>       <date-time>20080205T191224Z</date-time>
>     </property>
>
> it maps it to:
>
>        <dtstamp><date-time>20080205T191224Z</date-time></dtstamp>
>
> This means that additional properties will necessitate a schema update.
> Not good, and I believe this needs to be fixed.

There was a lot of debate over the choice of element names vs element 
attributes to name the iCalendar data objects. Really the key to your 
argument is whether or not it is vital to be able to validate the XML via 
the schema - I think our contention was that was not a requirement. More 
important is validating the semantics of the calendar data (e.g. DTEND 
always >= DTSTART, ORGANIZER always present in iTIP messages) and I believe 
no one is going to want to do that via the XML schema.

If you feel strongly about this I suggest you bring this issue up on the 
vCardDAV WG mailing list wrt to the vcard-in-xml spec which uses the same 
design as icalendar-in-xml. If there is agreement there to change, then we 
would likely re-align icalendar-in-xml to match.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo