[Dev] Calendar and Contacts use new XML format

[Brian Douglas Skinner]

Hi Chao,

Yup, I think we should add URLs as one of the built in types, along with 
maybe a couple of others, like Blob (or whatever the approved name for 
that is).

- Brian


Chih-Chao Lam wrote:

> Hi Katie & Brian,
> 
> Thanks for sharing this info. I'm in the process of migrating ZaoBao to 
> the new schema design. One quick question:
> 
> Should URLs be a built-in type too? "built-in" type as defined here:
> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/DataModelDevGuide#types
> 
> Since dates are a built-in type, it seems reasonable to me that URLs 
> should be too.
> 
> Thanks,
> chao
> 
> On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 01:50  PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
> 
>> fyi,
>>
>> The calendar and contacts parcels now use the new XML format to load 
>> schema items (instead of the pack files).
>>
>> The loading is still hardcoded in Application.py (this will be fixed 
>> eventually, when we have data parcel loading going).
>>
>> It uses the parser in model.schema.DomainSchemaLoader. This loader 
>> still has a few bugs/problems I'm working out, but should be working 
>> fine for the calendar and context schemas (and other basic schemas). 
>> Let me know if you find problems.
>>
>> Now's a good time to start writing your domain schemas in the new 
>> format. Let me know if you need help migrating or run into problems.
>>
>> The documentation on the new format:
>> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/DataModelSchemaXML
>>
>> Its good to look at the working examples:
>> Chandler/parcels/OSAF/calendar/model/calendar.xml
>> Chandler/parcels/OSAF/contacts/model/contacts.xml
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Katie
>>
>>
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