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RSS Calendar, take 2

edit David Janes 2004-08-27 16:56 UTC 1  comment  ·

I just posted this idea as a comment to Marc Canter's weblog. RSSCalendar should consider making the "ICAL" object an RSS 2 Enclosure so it can then be "picked off" automatically by tools interested in this data (without scraping the internal HTML object).

The ICAL object contains data that looks like this (original link):

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//RSSCalendar.com - 1.0//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d6128a5c44f82653361a48a60cbc47c2
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20040820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20040821
DTSTAMP:20040415T140000Z
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
SUMMARY:Conference
DESCRIPTION:RSSCalendar is an exciting ... uses, including:
LOCATION:
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

It's not XML but it does have its own RFC.

Comment #1John Pacchetti

2004-09-05 21:37:40
I just added an tag to the RSS 2.0 feed - it includes a link to the .ics (ICal) dynamic file that is generated for import. Thanks for the great suggestion!

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