[uf-dev] hCard DoB -> calendar apps

[Ryan King]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:28 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 5:56 PM, Chris Casciano wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any hCard parsers, which will add a name/ DoB pair from an
>>> hCard, to a calendar application, as a recurring iCalendar event?
>>>
>>> Is this something Operator might do?
>>>
>>> Other fields, such as "adr", might be added as a "note".
>>
>> Is this the domain of the hcard parser, or the consumer of the  
>> extracted data?
>>
>> My first reaction would be the later.
>>
>> [For example, one can set birthdays on contacts in Apple's Address  
>> Book to automatically display in iCal]
>
> A third alternative would be to treat it as the responsibility (and  
> authority) of the publisher, who could markup the birthday as a  
> repeating event with hCalendar.

You could do that, but it'd be tricky, esp. since RRULE is not yet  
and may never be specified in hCalendar (it's very hard to get  
right). RDATE would be the other option, but would require explicitly  
listing each date.

-ryan
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