RE: iCalendar as an XML DTD

[Anita <anitakp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

	Chris wrote,
<<<<
	Reliability is much more important to a calendaring app than to a browser,
so the calendaring app should be simple and independent, IMHO.
>>>>

IMO that is not the reason NOT to work on XML DTD. 
The developer community would definitely benefit from an XML representation for iCalendar objects. And would prefer not to have to deal with multiple grammers and parsers as well.  

Anita


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(Anita Kulkarni-Puranik
Ruksun software Technologies
Pune, INDIA
http://www.ruksun.com)


		
-----Original Message-----
From:	Chris Newman [SMTP:Chris.Newman@innosoft.com]
Sent:	Thursday, April 16, 1998 2:58 AM
To:	Mark Baker
Cc:	IETF calsch WG
Subject:	RE: iCalendar as an XML DTD

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Mark Baker wrote:
> Straw poll.  Who here *wouldn't* like to be able to present and interact
> with calendars via style sheets in a browser?

I wouldn't.  Browsers are already too bloated and buggy.  It's bad enough
having my browser crash regularly when I'm trying to find useful
information, but if it corrupted my calendar at the same time that would
be completely intolerable.

Reliability is much more important to a calendaring app than to a browser,
so the calendaring app should be simple and independent, IMHO.

		- Chris

"The bigger the hammer is, the more likely you are to hit your thumb."