Re: vcard vs. rdbms

On Saturday 07 September 2002 10:29, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote:
> > 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.
>
> vcard is generally a standard for transfer of data. I'm not so sure it is
> ideal for storage of data.

But kaddressbook seems to use vcard as a storage mechanism. Do you know of a 
good dbms to card and back bridge (a perl module, perhaps?).

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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