Newline for Google Calendar Api?

Question

I'm trying to insert the description of an event in google calendar from my web application and i cant get \n or <br /> to be interpreted as a line break. How does the google calendar interpret newlines? Help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Are you using a specific client library? If using the protocol, simply putting newline in the content element should work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
       xmlns:gCal="http://schemas.google.com/gCal/2005"
       xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
  <title type="text">Event with new line</title>
  <content type="text">This is an event with one
two
three
and and four lines.</content>
<gd:when endTime="2011-12-23T10:00:00.000-07:00" 
         startTime="2011-12-23T08:00:00.000-07:00"/>
</entry>

If using a client library, using '\n' should work as well.