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File Formats and Export/Import

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 Similarly for individual vs. company (i.e. location) email addresses.
+== File Formats and Export/Import ==
+I'd like to see the import/export formats expanded. I believe the current PDA/Cell/iPod standard is VCARD, so this would be first. The future of the internet seems to heavily use XML, so I'd suggest developing towards that eventuality. There are already google-able pages up on RDF-VCARD formats in XML.
+I see the double-email and associative/relational issues as issues of Object Definition.
+What are the individual objects? [object ratio, ie- #Entry:#Objects]
+As I understand it, the VCARD 3.0 is: (correct me if i'm wrong, and these are only the fields I think important)
+* AddressBook Entry
+** Name  [1:1]
+*** Display Name / Formatted Name  [1:1]
+*** Family Name / Last Name  [1:1]
+*** Given Name / First Name  [1:1]
+*** Suffixes and Prefixes
+** Address  [1:*]
+*** Type: Home, Work, etc.
+** Phone  [1:*]
+*** Type: Voice, Fax, Pager, Modem, Home, Work, Mobile  [1:1] (string of all that apply)
+*** Value: The actual phone number, in x.500
+** Email  [1:*]
+*** Type: Home, Work, etc.
+*** Value: actual email address
+** URL  [1:*]
+*** Type: Home, Work, Personal
+*** Value: http://sub.domain.url
+Contact merging isn't straightforward, reliably doing so would require a GUID for each contact, and that's not going to happen until Big Brother fully exists. However, during a "merge" or "compact", suspected duplicates could pop up a dialog box with both sets of info like:<br>
+----
+<pre>
+( ) Name: John Public         |   (*) Name: John Q. Public
+[x] Phone: +1-800-555-5555    |   [x] Phone: +1-555-800-5555
+</pre>
+and so on...
+and you'd click the checkboxes you want in the merged contact. In the case of addresses and phone numbers, multiples can be checked, whereas for Name, only 1 can be chosen (radiobutton).
+== Contact Input Dialog ==
+This needs to incorporate the possibility of many more address, phone, URL, and email objects, including the ability to have many of the same type (ie. more than 1 HOME email, more than 1 WORK phone) Outlook had these capabilities, and so should this project.