Curious. Why are you trying to parse the basic projection, compared to one
that has semantic information about the event?
Frank Mantek
Google
On 8/3/07, Ray Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
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> For recurring events in basic feeds, Google reports the duration in
> seconds of the first instance of the event instead of the end time. I
> don't know why they do it this way, there may be no particular reason.
> In your case, 14400 is the number of seconds in 4 hours.
>
> I don't see that there are any guarantees about what the contents will
> be or how they will map onto the data elements of an event, so instead
> of trying to parse the free form text of the content I would try to
> parse the gd:recurrence from the full feed instead.
>
> Ray
>
>
> Prometheus wrote:
> > It is probable a silly question but I having difficulties interpreting
> > the Duration attribute that is returned from a calendar atomEntry
> > content.
> >
> > Using GDATA the following code returns a list of the events from a
> > public calendar
> > ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
> > AtomFeed feedA = new AtomFeed(calendarQuery.Uri,this);
> > Stream streamA = this.Query(calendarQuery.Uri);
> > feedA.Parse(streamA, AlternativeFormat.Atom);
> > streamA.Close();
> > foreach(AtomEntry en in feedA.Entries){
> > AtomContent contentillo = en.Content as AtomContent;
> > list.Add("Title:"+en.Title.Text
> > +"<br>"+contentillo.Content.ToString());
> > }
> >
> > I'm building a parser for the content of atom entry however i still
> > don't quite understand how the Duration value can be interpreted.One
> > entry in the calendar content is the following.In this case this
> > recurrent event duration value is 14400 but what does it mean?
> >
> > Title:Feria del Payaso<br>Recurring Event<br> First start: 2007-12-24
> > 08:00:00 MST <br> Duration: 14400 <br>Event Status: confirme
>
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> >
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