Question about Kolab XML Format

[Gustavo Michels]

Hi

First of all sorry if this is the wrong list to post, I was in doubt if I 
should ask questions on the development list.

Anyway, on to the subject. I am currently in the middle of a university 
project which, in part, should migrate an Exchange server to an opensource 
solution. I chose Kolab to be the solution.

I was doing mail & calendar data migration simply by directly copying each 
user's mailbox mail and calendar folders from exchange's imap server to 
kolab's imap server, by using a perl script called imapsync (available at 
freshmeat).

Mail data, of course, is no problem. However, calendar data is. As with the 
latest kolab sources  available at ftp.kolab.org I was testing, the storage 
format was still the iCal/vCard format, and the process was quite working. 
The only glitch I was having was the events on the kolab calendar being 
moved 1 hour earlier, but I could see all events I had on the Exchange 
server on Kontact (both 3.3.0 and proko2 cvs from 2 days ago, using the 
iCal/vCard storage format in the groupware preferences - btw proko2 would 
automatically choose the correct storage format - iCal/vCard - after using 
kolabwizard).

Now, upgrading to the latest kolab packages using obmtool.conf from cvs, the 
new Kolab XML format was enabled, and Kontact no longer understands the 
iCal format and silently ignores my existing iCal events, even if I set the 
storage format as iCal/vCard.

My question: is there a tool to convert iCal to the XML format Kolab now 
uses? Also, converting vCard to the XML format will also be needed, since I 
was planning on converting Outlook Contacts to vCards and just upload them 
to the imap server.

If there isn't such a tool, I will probably have to create one. Where can I 
find information about the Kolab XML format, and most important, do you 
think it is fairly easy to create one?

Thanks in advance
Gustavo