Re: Entry types

2006-05-02 Thread David Powell
Monday, May 1, 2006, 8:40:57 PM, James Snell wrote: I'm wondering if it would make sense to have a single common type scheme that could be used consistently across implementations. random thoughts Type seems a bit vague, this seems to be mainly about describing how an entry should be

Re: Entry types

2006-05-02 Thread Sylvain Hellegouarch
Type seems a bit vague, this seems to be mainly about describing how an entry should be processed. A few possible ways to do that: a) Using categories and a known categorisation scheme b) Using an ex:processAs extension c) Using domain specific extensions, eg contact:VCard / d)

Re: Entry types

2006-05-02 Thread James M Snell
Hey David, Just some responses to your random thoughts. My goal is not to argue that the category approach is best, but only to state the rationale behind what we've done to this point. David Powell wrote: Monday, May 1, 2006, 8:40:57 PM, James Snell wrote: I'm wondering if it would make

Entry types

2006-05-01 Thread James M Snell
Looking at Google's gdata and IBM's open activities APP implementation as examples, there appears to be a solid use case for defining a common categorization scheme for associating a type label to an entry. For instance, Gdata defines the following: atom:category