[jdev] newer version of vcard

[Oleg V. Motienko]

Trejkaz Xaoza пишет:

>On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:11, Sergei Golovan wrote:
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>>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:25:12AM +0100, Richard Dobson wrote:
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>>>You should be able to work out the age from the date of birth shouldnt
>>>you?
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>>Many clients (Psi, Gaim etc.) treat birthday field as a text field. So it's
>>not easy to parse the date, entered by user.
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>Is that not then a bug in the client, for failing to validate that the string 
>which was entered is valid according to the JEP?  Hardly a good reason for 
>adding a redundant element to the vCard.  (Who stops someone entering 
>anything they want in this new age field, anyway?)
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>Failing that, Perl (and probably others) has a library for parsing 
>human-entered dates.
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The problem is different. Users doesn't want to input their bithrday, 
want only Age or just Age range (18-21,21-25,etc.).

As Sergei say, many clients treat birthday field as a text field, and users place there Age or just words "Ask me" :) .
Also, Gender field is absent in current vcard format (Am I wrong?).

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