xCalendar

Published Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:41 PM

Ray Ozzie of Groove points out a great idea in his September 2003 entry: xCal.  An XML equivalent to iCal that is supported by Outlook and behaves like RSS.

The IETF has an XML DTD for iCalendar but it hasn't taken off like the world Ray describes where he can syndicate his beloved Celtics calendar.

I think we should encourage this to spread like RSS has.

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# John Bristowe said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 7:03 PM

Jeff [1] and I [2] implemented something similar to xCal a while back; ESF:

http://www.bristowe.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=bc2ca8bf-b726-4131-a1d5-1da5ec334f0c">http://www.bristowe.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=bc2ca8bf-b726-4131-a1d5-1da5ec334f0c

The Event Share Framework (ESF) is listed here:

http://www.esfstandard.org/

[1] http://geekswithblogs.net/jjulian/
[2] http://www.bristowe.com/

# Robert McLaws said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:31 PM

Funny, I talked about this idea a while back.

http://weblogs.asp.net/rmclaws/archive/2003/11/23/39402.aspx

# Westin said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:39 PM

Robert, John, Jeff,

Have any of you written an XSD or DTD for your formats?

# Westin said on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:53 PM

You know. On a side note, I am surprised how few organizations post calendar entries as iCal files. They are really difficult to generate programatically, but small non-profits who only have a few events could easily generate one and post it on their site as a downloadable file.
I still think there needs to be a syndication XML-based format for calendars... I'm just sayin'...

# Westin's Technical Log said on Monday, February 04, 2008 6:15 PM

There is an interesting article on MSDN entitled “Custom Calendar Providers for Outlook 2003” which contains a hidden gem: a way to integrate RSS with a Calendar view in Outlook 2003.

# Westin's Technical Log said on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:50 AM

In an earlier post, xCalendar , I echoed a need for a XML calendar syndication standard (that isn't based

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