[uf-discuss] A couple of real-world usage problems

Tue Jul 11 14:07:54 PDT 2006

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Ben O'Neill wrote:
> On 11/07/06, Mike Rumble <mike.rumble at lawton.co.uk> wrote:
>>> What I'm getting at is does the user-agent or search engine see 
>> these a
>> two separate events? If not, is there value in using hCalendar in 
>> both
>> places?
>> The spider/browser should see they have the same uid and therefore
> know that they are the same event. It should also be clever enough to
> add any info it learns from the more detailed version to the knowledge
> it learnt from the less detailed.
>> That's how I hope it would work, but I'm not familiar with the 
> hCalendar spec.

Your instincts are right. UID is a universal identifier for an event. 
Two events with the same UID should be considered the same event 
(assuming there are no trust issues).
-ryan