How to read events from Oracle Collaboration Suite Calendar using Python

Oracle doesn't supply anything to sync a PDA on Linux. I intend to correct that failure. At the moment this is all very preliminary, but it works for me.

A good starting reference is "Oracle Calendar Application Developer's Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.2)" part number B25489-01

Here's how to extract events from OCS Calendar. This gets you a large XML file.

Here's how to parse the XML from OCS Calendar. This boils things down to something far more readable.

This is all stock Python 2.5, using nothing that's not in the standard distribution.

Next step is to figure out how to update the Palm .pdb file with the information, probably using pilot-link.

(I just found "install-datebook")