4.7.4 Version

Basic Definition | Description| | Example

Basic Definition

Property Name: VERSION
Purpose: This property specifies the identifier corresponding to the highest version number or the minimum and maximum range of the iCalendar specification that is required in order to interpret the iCalendar object.
Value Type: TEXT
Property Parameters: Non-standard property parameters can be specified on this property.
Conformance: This property MUST be specified by an iCalendar object, but MUST only be specified once.

Description

A value of "2.0" corresponds to this memo.

Format Definition

The property is defined by the following notation:

  version    = "VERSION" verparam ":" vervalue CRLF

  verparam   = *(";" xparam)

  vervalue   = "2.0"         ;This memo
             / maxver
             / (minver ";" maxver)

  minver     = <A IANA registered iCalendar version identifier>
  ;Minimum iCalendar version needed to parse the iCalendar object

  maxver     = <A IANA registered iCalendar version identifier>
  ;Maximum iCalendar version needed to parse the iCalendar object

Example

The following is an example of this property:

  VERSION:2.0

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