Re: XML format for kabc

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:29:49AM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Friday 24 May 2002 02:11, Anders Lund wrote:
> > > > a) Did noone think about a db (berkerly db) backend? That seems to be
> > > > what is comonly used for storing pim data.
> > >
> > > We discussed this a while ago, but nobody did implement it. One problem
> > > I see is that it gives an additional dependency and db seems to be a
> > > quit nasty dependency because there are several incompatible versions
> > > out there.
> >
> > Yes, I know. But it is a fast and efficient backend...
> 
> If somebody would like to implement and maintain a db backend for libkabc, I 
> wouldn't have any objections ;-)
Hmm, gdbm & Co. are key-value based databases, right?
Do you have any glue how to 'serialize' tables like emails, phones, addresses
to such a database? I took a look at simpleformat.cpp, that also uses a
key-value based structure, but writing good & fast code seems a bit tricky.

Ciao,
Tobias
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