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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] XML format for kabc
From:       Tobias Koenig <tokoe82 () yahoo ! de>
Date:       2002-05-20 10:38:56
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:26:22AM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Sunday 19 May 2002 18:59, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> >
> > at the moment I'm writing a xml format for kabc.
> 
> Why?
Why not? ;)
At the moment vcard doesn't save all available attributes of addressee
and xml will (hopefully) become an importent data exchange format in the
future.

> > Now my questions
> > is, are there already defined tags for pim xml documents or can I
> > define my own ones?
> 
> E. g. Qtopia uses XML to store PIM data.
So I'll take a look on it

> Another approach would be to translate vCard to XML so that all
> properties and parameters are represented by corresponding XML elements.
The problem with converters is, that everybody how needs such a special
format has to convert the backend database every time he changed a single
value. That lacks if e.g. a web frontend (that only use XML format) and
kaddressbook want to work together.

Ciao,
Tobias
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