[Cosmo-dev] communicating iCalendar parameters in EIM

[Brian Moseley]

On 1/25/07, Jeffrey Harris <jeffrey at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> Hmm.  For date-times, that works fine, although it's notable that : is
> the separator for parameters, not ; as in iCalendar.
>
> Will we use iCalendar-style quoting (i.e., optionally allowing
> paramvalues to be wrapped in double quotes and thus include more
> characters)?
>
> More generally, if : is allowed in fieldvalues, consider this sample
> field value for a text field:
>
> NotAParam=foo:Some exciting text: Yay!
>
> How can a parser decide if NotAParam is, in fact, a parameter?

okay, right. i started going off on this tangent about adding the
notion of complex field types to eim and what not, but i realized that
it would be simpler to just do this. so yea, we'll use regular
icalendar property serialization, minus the leading property name and
colon.