xCalendar

Tuesday, March 9, 2004

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.

3 Comments

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

<a target="_new" href="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/

John Bristowe - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:03:00 AM
Robert, John, Jeff,

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

Westin - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:39:00 AM
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 - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:53:00 AM

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