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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Re: Bug#33311: address backup addressbook kab
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-05 9:01:22
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On Thursday 04 October 2001 23:42, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
>
> > Still I have noticed that none of the kde files use xml to store their
> > data. This is a pity because you are going to have to reinvent the wheel
> > as far as having to deal with different character sets, and it is more
> > difficult to parse. There are some nice xml tools that do consistency
> > checks, and you are loosing out by not being able to use them.
>
> That's definitely a backend consideration. I personally don't think XML is
> the be-all and end-all of data formats, though we've discussed using it as
> the universal intermediate language between PIM apps. But the problem is
> also solved in KConfig files, and in serialized QString (use UTF-8). I'd
> agree that *export* to XML is pretty important, but not essential, and
> certainly not as an internal format.

XML is nice and buzzword compatible, but for things like addressbook or 
calendar data it's far better to use the existing standards, like vCard or 
iCalendar. They define not only the syntax, but also the semantics of the 
data and that is, what's really needed. It's pretty useless to know that a 
document is well-formed and can be validated, if you don't understand the 
data, that it contains.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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