Phil Barker wrote:
> 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?
>
doh, leaving out N (and FN) was exactly what Andy suggested before making
this point. Sorry, I read too many vCards yesterday morning.
Well, I thought that the only advantage of using vCards was that they were
widely used for applications other than the LOM, and so there's a chance of
picking up a parser written for a more generic application and plugging it
into your LOM application. Using a LOM-specific profile can only reduce the
likelihood of this happening.
Phil.
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