[Kolab-devel] Possible problems in Toltec's Kolab XML handling?

[Andreas Gungl]

Am Mittwoch, 20. April 2005 11:48 schrieb Joon Radley:
> Hi,
>
> > The first issue is Kontact writing <organizer> while Toltec
> > uses <creator>. Toltec doesn't provide <revision> while
> > Kontact does. Do these differences have any side effects?
>
> <organizer> is for the user that organizes the meeting e.g. the Boss while
> the <creator> is the actual person creating the meeting e.g. the PA. If
> this is not the case we need to clarify the documentation and fix it.

Okay, I leave that one to you. I didn't find something working wrong, I only 
wanted to ask because I saw the difference when comparing the data created by 
Kontact and Toltec.

> > The second issue is that I have some events defined in OL
> > which are recurring with an end date. But they end on the server as
> >   <recurrence cycle="daily">
> >     <interval>1</interval>
> >     <range type="none"/>
> >   </recurrence>
> > while Kontact uses e.g.
> >  <recurrence cycle="daily" >
> >   <interval>1</interval>
> >   <range type="date" >2005-04-20</range>  </recurrence> for
> > that. Does anybody else have this problem?
>
> When range type is none, no end date has been specified in Outlook. Specify
> an end date and the range will change.

I have to re-check, but this might take some days. I'll give feedback, though.

> > BTW, it's unfortunate that Toltec uses Base64 encoding for
> > the XML attachment. That makes it a lot more difficult to
> > find a certain message e.g. by the subject of an event for
> > debugging reasons (while it is easily possible with the
> > messages generated by Kontact).
> > Do you see any chance to change that?
>
> Base64 encoding is not subject to interpretation rules like quote-pritable.
> What you put into base64 is what you get out of base64.

Fair enough. I know how to work around it. ;-)

Andreas