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3.4. iCalendar Object

The Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object is a collection of calendaring and scheduling information. Typically, this information will consist of an iCalendar stream with a single iCalendar object. However, multiple iCalendar objects can be sequentially grouped together in an iCalendar stream. The first line and last line of the iCalendar object MUST contain a pair of iCalendar object delimiter strings. The syntax for an iCalendar stream is as follows:

 icalstream = 1*icalobject

 icalobject = "BEGIN" ":" "VCALENDAR" CRLF
              icalbody
              "END" ":" "VCALENDAR" CRLF

The following is a simple example of an iCalendar object:

 BEGIN:VCALENDAR
 VERSION:2.0
 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
 BEGIN:VEVENT
 UID:19970610T172345Z-AF23B2@example.com
 DTSTAMP:19970610T172345Z
 DTSTART:19970714T170000Z
 DTEND:19970715T040000Z
 SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
 END:VEVENT
 END:VCALENDAR

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