xCalendar

xCal Schema

Westin's Technical Log — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:50:14 GMT

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

View RSS or possibly xCalendar in Outlook 2003

Westin's Technical Log — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:15:48 GMT

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.

iCal

Westin — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:53:00 GMT

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'...

re: xCalendar

Westin — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:39:00 GMT

Robert, John, Jeff,

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

re: xCalendar

Robert McLaws — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:31:00 GMT

Funny, I talked about this idea a while back.

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

re: xCalendar

John Bristowe — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:03:00 GMT

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/