Re: Convert iCalendar files to org files

From: MidLifeXis at PerlMonks <midlifexis@wightmanfam.org>
To: Michael Markert <markert.michael@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convert iCalendar files to org files
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:04:18 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <640491.47094.qm@web81604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762ubwg47.wl%markert.michael@googlemail.com>

> * Convert iCalendar recurrences to org recurrences[2]

>[2] And I'm quite sure it can't be done because orgmode has no concept
> of a recurrence end like iCalendar does.

Just as a possibility, what about using the diary syntax for dates in this 
case?  I have successfully done repeating tasks from $STARTDATE to $ENDDATE 
using something like:

%%(and (diary-block ...) (diary-cyclic ...))

I believe that this format for dates can now be placed into a standard org-mode 
date delimiter as well.

Brian

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Markert <markert.michael@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 7:21:44 AM
Subject: [Orgmode] Convert iCalendar files to org files

Hi,

i created `ical2org'[1] to convert iCalendar files to org files in elisp.

It does:
* Traverse the iCalendar using `icalendar.el' and constructs a struct
  for each event
* Format each struct via a (userdefined) formatstring
* Convert times to orgmode timestrings (limitations below)

It does not (at the moment):
* Fully translate VEVENTs to org mode entries and only captures a few
  (sensible) attributes
* Convert iCalendar recurrences to org recurrences[2]
* Use "Duration" to determine endtime
* (I'm quite sure there's more, it's very young)

I'm aware of Doug Hellmann's `ical2org', but for the functionality it
didn't fulfill my needs and for the name, well I didn't come to a better
one yet, suggestions are welcome.

The same holds for the code, patches or ideas to fix the shortcomings
are highly appreciated. 

Michael

Footnotes:
[1] https://github.com/cofi/ical2org
[2] And I'm quite sure it can't be done because orgmode has no concept
of a recurrence end like iCalendar does.

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