Re: Announce: C# iCalendar (RFC 2445) Open Source Parser

* Paul Cowles <paul@semaview.com> [2004-03-16 13:34-0500]
> Hi all,
>  
> We've finally wrapped our C# .NET ical2rdf converter into an open source
> package and made it available via sourceforge. You may find the project at:
>  
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/icalparser/
>  
> The project contains both source code (icalparser) and binary executable
> (ical2rdf). 
>  
> Hope this is of use to the community, feel free to direct feedback to the
> project contact Tim at  <mailto:tspurway@semaview.com> tspurway@semaview.com
> We are looking forward to new contributions to the project.

This is great, thanks for sharing :)

Brief notes to report some success with these tools in a Linux/Debian 
environment using the Mono C# implementation (whichever version is 
currently packaged in Debian Unstable distribution).

unpacking the binary and src distrib, I can run the binary as 
follows...

danbri@fireball:~/tmp/mono/ical$ mono ical2rdf.exe testcases/birthdays.ics

...and it spits out RDF.

As for compiling... I promise it worked yesterday, but then I did 
an 'apt-get upgrade' and perhaps Mono got updated. The following 
command in the source dir should build a .exe:

	 mcs -r System.Web *.cs

Right now I'm seeing errors (unrelated to the cal stuff I think), 

[[
** (/usr/share/dotnet/bin/mcs.exe:21679): WARNING **: Missing method
DiscardBufferedData in assembly /usr/share/dotnet/bin/mcs.exe typeref
index 71
System.NullReferenceException: A null value was found where an object
instance was required
in (unmanaged) 00 Mono.CSharp.SeekableStreamReader:set_Position (int)
in <0x00181> 00 Mono.CSharp.Tokenizer:is_punct (char,bool&)
in <0x00393> 00 Mono.CSharp.Tokenizer:xtoken ()
in <0x00017> 00 Mono.CSharp.Tokenizer:token ()
in <0x002ce> 00 Mono.CSharp.CSharpParser:yyparse
(Mono.CSharp.yyParser.yyInput)
in <0x00079> 00 Mono.CSharp.CSharpParser:parse ()
 
 Emitter.cs(461) error CS8025: Parsing error
]]

...but I guess that's why they call this version of Debian 'Unstable'.

I'm pretty sure that folk with a working Mono setup should be able 
to use this easily. It built perfectly last night!

thanks again,

Dan

Received on Friday, 19 March 2004 13:26:11 UTC