Posted by Toby A Inkster on 08/24/07 22:43

Daniel wrote:

> It took a while but I finally found a great article that covers
> exactly this. It create a file that the user clicks on and then get
> sent to their calendar. If interested you can see it at
>
> http://www.devx.com/getHelpOn/10MinuteSolution/20508/0/page/1

Indeed. iCalendar is a very nifty format. You should also look up
hCalendar as it may be of interest: it's a mapping of vCalendar
semantics to HTML, and there are various tool to convert between
the two. There's also such a thing as xCalendar, an XML serialisation
of vCalendar, though in practise there is very little software that
supports it.

I did a bunch of research on this sort of thing a few months ago as
I've written support for my CMS to offer feeds in iCalendar as well
as the usual suspects like RSS and Atom.

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