RSS And Calendar Integration

sytelus writes "Many has played with the idea of packaging calendar information in to the RSS feed. Almost every other website owned by some kind of group or organization has an event calendar so the thought of aggregating those events in to your calendar is pretty appealing. Even more appealing is the thought that people might start tagging their weekend plans and schedules in their RSS feeds. This essay , written after digging through dozens of W3C specs and half a dozen of implementations, reviews the current state of affair."

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Re:Uhh...

[Anonymous Coward]

This person didn't do their research that well.

On top of that, he doesn't know what he's talking about. For example, he says that "RDF is simply an XML language", when it's a data model that just happens to have an XML serialisation.

I think that iCal format is fine for sharing...

[mr3038]

...but I agree that there's a need for more. For example, hCalendar has some merit being XHTML compatible and can be nicely embedded in any XHTML (or even HTML) page. Distribution of calendar files (.ics) isn't the problem. The real problem is that it's hard to discuss events outside .ics format so that applications are still able to automatically extract the information. hCalendar is nicely submerged inside the real content as demonstrated by the example. Throw in hCard and we can finally talk about usable metadata embedded in a web page.