vcard vs. rdbms

A couple of days ago I posted on my trials and tribulations trying to 
integrate kddressbook with my mysql based addressbook. I searched some on the 
net and didn't find anything apealing, and then read up on vcard, the 
standard behind kaddressbook and many other such programs.

I couldn't find the list of standard vcard fields, but I did learn some things 
from reading the kaddressbook datafile (.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.*).

Anyway, I wonder whether vcard allows for several value fields of the same 
type, and whether list members know any kind of addressbook that can deal 
with that. Let me explain. Kaddressbook expects one filed and only one to be 
homephone, and since people may have more than one homephone, they provide 
also homephone2. Any more than two phone numbers, and you must start using 
the businessphone fields, etc. even though we are dealing with homephones. 
Kaddressbook cannot deal with 2nd addresses unless the fields are added as 
custom fields.

OTOH, the Palm built in addressbook allows for storing a number of phone 
numbers, and any one of those can be designated as any arbitrary field. Thus, 
you can enter a phone number and set it to be homephone, and do so again in 
the next 5 fields, even though the values are all different and the filed 
names are all the same.

So, is there an addressbook that will behave in this matter like the Palm, or 
even better, be even more flexible and allow multiple addresses, businesses, 
etc.?

Shanah tovah,

Arie Folger
-- 
It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man 
who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
           -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics

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