[Ietf-caldav] freebusy lookups in CalDav are too hard to consume?

[Lisa Dusseault]

Cyrus & Bernard & I have been talking about this a long time as a way  
to transition to something even more XML friendly.  I hadn't thought  
it needed to be mentioned in this spec because so far there's only  
one ACCEPT-able format.

Lisa

On May 29, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:

>   This does bring up one issue.
>
>   Perhaps we should provide guidance/encouragement in the CalDAV  
> spec on the use of the Accept header.  As far as I know, most web  
> clients do not provide a useful Accept header, which is problematic  
> when a server can render a calendar component resource in both  
> iCalendar and (eg.) hCalendar forms.
>
> 	-wsv
>
>
> On May 26, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Jim Whitehead wrote:
>
>>> p.s. For the data format, my personal belief is that data models  
>>> should be available in many formats.  The hard work is actually  
>>> producing and agreeing on the data model, mapping it to different  
>>> representations is the easy bit. I would encourage the group to  
>>> think about producing an xml representation for iCal.  As well as  
>>> being more consumable it has a standard approach for character  
>>> encodings and allows the elements to be mixed with elements from  
>>> other namespaces e.g. Location.
>>
>> I agree with this. The difficulty is not with the parsing, but  
>> with the representation of the data model. I would like to see a  
>> migration path to XML over time, as the ICalendar format is a  
>> historical anomaly, a data format that gathered sufficient  
>> internal momentum to not immediately be converted to XML. XML is  
>> clearly a better long-term representation strategy, as it offers  
>> better extensibility, and there is more tool support for XML.
>
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