Fwd: [uf-discuss] RE: Disconnect between hCard and RFC 2426 (vCard specification)?

[Stephen Paul Weber]

1:1 means that the field names are identical in each, not that the
use-case will always be the same.  (Incidentally, I have seen vCards
made for businesses before...)


On 10/22/06,  Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 10/22/06, Costello, Roger L. <costello at mitre.org> wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am reading the vCard specification (RFC 2426) and there seems to be
> > some disconnects between it and the hCard specification.
>
>
> > Terminology
> >
> > RFC 2426 uses the terminology "type", e.g., FN Type
> >
> > hCard uses the terminology "property", e.g., FN property
> >
> > "This specification introduces the hCard format, which uses a 1:1
> > representation of the *properties* and values of the aforementioned
> > vCard standard"
> >
> > Shouldn't there be consistency of terminology?
>
> a consistant terminology is certainly a good idea. RFC 2445 for
> iCalendar uses "property", it seems a much better system because in
> vCard there is a TYPE attribute for things like TEL and ADR and it
> generate more confustion when you say TEL TYPE? is that the TEL TYPE,
> TYPE attribute, or the TEL TYPE?
>
> If you also look at the description for properties (3.1.2 N Type
> Definition) such as N, it says:
> "The property MUST be present in the vCard object." So i think
>  "property" is an acceptable term.
>
> -brian
>
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