[uf-discuss] friendlier handling of DURATION in hCalendar

[Drew McLellan]

On 11 Jul 2006, at 05:37, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> The DURATION property in iCalendar RFC2445 apparently is case- 
> sensitive in
> the values it accepts. (Section 4.3.6 Duration)
>
> As other either iterated or parsed properties accept case- 
> insensitive values
> (such as "type"), I think we may want to add a required uppercasing  
> of the
> DURATION property to hCalendar processing to make the authoring of the
> DURATION property easier for authors.
>
> Brian informs me that this too is fairly easy to implement.
>
> Any objections or implementer issues?

I've had to re-read this a few times, so apologies if I've got the  
wrong end of the stick.

You're suggesting that DURATION values should be case-insensitive,  
and that parsers should convert them to uppercase in processing?

If so, that's fine.

drew.