Re: Speedial Import/Export

Thanks for the attention to this. I eagerly await the next release -- with 
~any~ solution.  ;-)))

But being a former developer myself, I do appreciate the desire to get it 
right.

Along those lines, if I understand things correctly (and I may not) isn't 
the "abc." prefix intended to act as a primary key for the whole collection 
of attributes for a given person/entity. In the current BitPim VCard 
export, there is no such key, and the attributes for a person are simply 
grouped sequentially.  In transforming VCard to Access/Excel tables, I 
picked up the FN value as the key for each entry and propagated it to 
subsequent lines, until the next FN.

So, why not use something key-like, such as FN (except for imbedded spaces, 
of course), or simply 1, 2, 3 etc.  You might even use BitPim's internal 
key in some form.

--David.

At 12:52 PM 3/29/2005, you wrote:
> > > The other is to use the grouping scheme intended by the standard.
> > >
> > >  abc.TEL;TYPE=WORK:(123) 555-6789
> > >  abc.X-SPEEDDIAL:10
> > That's a good idea, I missed that when I went through the spec.
> > I'll use that instead.  Being consistent of the current vCards 
> > implementation, I'll use phone, phone2, ... prefix for those groupings.


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