On 2011-09-26 17:50 +0800, Roland Winkler wrote: > On Mon Sep 26 2011 Leo wrote: >> It might be desirable to export a record to a canonical sexp then we can >> further write the sexp to any other formats such as vcards, xmls etc. >> For example, the sexp can be a list of elements of the form: >> >> (field parameters value) > > Maybe you can explain in a bit more detail what you have in mind > here. What would be parameters? How about multiple fields of the > same type (snail mail addresses and phone numbers)? How to deal with > values that are lists (organizations, email addresses, AKAs)?
I haven't thought this through. But something like: (nickname () "jvm") (phone ((type "home")) "01223 399255") (phone ((type "cell")) "07899 825396") (timestamp ((value list)) (20096 21292 563816)) (timestamp ((value string)) "Mon Sep 26 18:26:13 2011") (photo ((value binary)) "%\211Do^\DXlY\2005^H") Leo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/