Hello All,
First, I guess I should point our that the vCard issue is a general LOM
issue not specific to UK LOM Core. Still it's important that UK LOM Core
addresses it in a way that (a) allows people in the UK to work with the LOM
and (b) doesn't create a UK LOM ghetto. I think we're on the way to doing that.
Furthermore, I think the problem with vCard's mandatory N section is wider
than the LOM's use of vCard. I know I have entries in my address book for
my bank and other organizations, and even for this jiscmail list. But that
goes beyond CETIS's remit.
Anyway, my one concern with Andy's suggestion is with his last point
Andy Powell wrote:
> Oh... and, since we are now firmly talking about a LOM-specific profile of
> vCard, I guess we can forget about the fact that VERSION is mandatory?
>
This would be a syntactic matter rather whereas the bending of N is
semantic. As such there is a chance that whatever vCard parser being used
by an application reading a LOM record may not accept the vCard (I suspect
the vCard parser may well be more generic in intent than working on vCards
in LOM records). Otherwise, why not forget about the fact that N is mandatory?
Phil.
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