* John Lianoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-22 05:25]:
> >>This will allow Cocoon to make extensive use of published iCalendar
> >>files from, well, obviously wherever! :)
> >
> >That'd be great. In fact, a sample providing a webav location for
> >ical publishing and a few pipelines to view that data would probably
> >be a big hit.
>
> heh... sorta gives me goose bumps... er, hang on, what's that i missed
> on today's shopping list ... "A Life" ... ehem, i see ... ;)
>
>
> >One problem I see with the ical/xcal standard is that it's not
> >designed to be a database - for example when selecting one week out of
> >a calendar covering a year you may need to parse (and generate sax
> >for) the whole thing though it would be otherwise unnessary.
>
> well, i had already done some thinking on this one... but first it's
> worth mentioning that any really huge files you feed into any
> particular generator will logically cause a performance penalty of some
> sort... so there's a degree of responsibility of the individual
> managing the content to streamline this info.
>
> that said...
>
> perhaps the generator could filter out the important stuff using
> attributes in the generator tag... i'm picturing something like:
>
> Load whole ical into SAX stream:
> <map:generator type="calendar" src="blah.ics" />
>
> Load date range:
> <map:generator type="calendar" src="blah.ics" from="2004-03-22"
> to="2004-04-01" />
>
> Load all information from a certain date, on:
> <map:generator type="calendar" src="blah.ics" from="2004-03-22" />
>
> Load all information upto a certain date:
> <map:generator type="calendar" src="blah.ics" to="2004-04-01" />
>
> Then you can implement special values for use in the from and to
> attributes, like:
>
> today
> today +/- 14
> month
> month +/- 6
> year
> year +/- 2
> where "today," "month," and "year" are always based on the current
> date; and offsets can be specified by using + or - followed by an
> integer.
I asked this question. Now I'm back. :^)
Would the above simply generate a calendar without an iCal
source? My blog entries are not stored in iCal.
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