Examples of various Address Book formats

Examples of some of the more common Address Book formats

Just to get a perspective of the lunacy of Mork format, I created a simple Address Book entry in the OS X Address Book, saved it as a vCard, converted it to LDIF, then imported it into Thunderbird . Here you can see the various formats.

vCard:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Adams;Douglas;;;
 FN:Douglas Adams
NICKNAME:Douglas_adams
EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=HOME;type=pref:Douglas@douglasadams.com
TEL;type=CELL:(858) 555-4200
TEL;type=HOME;type=pref:(858) 555-0042
item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;42 some street;some city;some state;00042;England
item1.X-ABADR:us
item2.URL;type=pref:http\://www.douglasadams.com
item2.X-ABLabel:_$!<HomePage>!$_
X-ABUID:46BA1516-8EA6-4687-8838-A7EC4F190D01\:ABPerson
END:VCARD

LDIF:

dn: cn=Douglas Adams,mail=Douglas@douglasadams.com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
objectclass: organizationalPerson
objectclass: inetOrgPerson
objectclass: mozillaAbPersonObsolete
givenName: Douglas
sn: Adams
cn: Douglas Adams
mail: Douglas@douglasadams.com
modifytimestamp: 0Z
mozillaNickname: Douglas_adams     <--- Note: "mozilla" was placed there by the converter.
homePhone: (858) 555-0042
mobile: (858) 555-4200
street: 42 some street
l: some city
postalCode: 00042
c: England
workurl: http://www.douglasadams.com

Mork

(Oh, the horrors!):

// 
< <(a=c)> // (f=iso-8859-1)
 (B8=Custom4)(B9=Notes)(BA=LastModifiedDate)(BB=RecordKey)
 (BC=AddrCharSet)(BD=LastRecordKey)(BE=ns:addrbk:db:table:kind:pab)
 (BF=ListName)(C0=ListNickName)(C1=ListDescription)
 (C2=ListTotalAddresses)(C3=LowercaseListName)
 (C4=ns:addrbk:db:table:kind:deleted)
 (80=ns:addrbk:db:row:scope:card:all)
 (81=ns:addrbk:db:row:scope:list:all)
 (82=ns:addrbk:db:row:scope:data:all)(83=FirstName)(84=LastName)
 (85=PhoneticFirstName)(86=PhoneticLastName)(87=DisplayName)
 (88=NickName)(89=PrimaryEmail)(8A=LowercasePrimaryEmail)
 (8B=SecondEmail)(8C=PreferMailFormat)(8D=PopularityIndex)
 (8E=AllowRemoteContent)(8F=WorkPhone)(90=HomePhone)(91=FaxNumber)
 (92=PagerNumber)(93=CellularNumber)(94=WorkPhoneType)(95=HomePhoneType)
 (96=FaxNumberType)(97=PagerNumberType)(98=CellularNumberType)
 (99=HomeAddress)(9A=HomeAddress2)(9B=HomeCity)(9C=HomeState)
 (9D=HomeZipCode)(9E=HomeCountry)(9F=WorkAddress)(A0=WorkAddress2)
 (A1=WorkCity)(A2=WorkState)(A3=WorkZipCode)(A4=WorkCountry)
 (A5=JobTitle)(A6=Department)(A7=Company)(A8=_AimScreenName)
 (A9=AnniversaryYear)(AA=AnniversaryMonth)(AB=AnniversaryDay)
 (AC=SpouseName)(AD=FamilyName)(AE=DefaultAddress)(AF=Category)
 (B0=WebPage1)(B1=WebPage2)(B2=BirthYear)(B3=BirthMonth)(B4=BirthDay)
 (B5=Custom1)(B6=Custom2)(B7=Custom3)>
<(80=0)>
{1:^80 {(k^BE:c)(s=9)} 
 [1:^82(^BD=0)]}
@$${1{@
<(8E=1)(81=Douglas)(82=Adams)(83=Douglas Adams)(84
   =Douglas@douglasadams.com)(85=douglas@douglasadams.com)(86
   =Douglas_adams)(87=(858\) 555-0042)(88=(858\) 555-4200)(89
   =42 some street)(8A=some city)(8B=00042)(8C=England)(8D
   =http://www.douglasadams.com)>
{-1:^80 {(k^BE:c)(s=9)} 
 [1:^82(^BD=1)]
 [-1(^83^81)(^84^82)(^87^83)(^89^84)(^8A^85)(^88^86)(^90^87)(^93^88)
   (^9F^89)(^A1^8A)(^A3^8B)(^A4^8C)(^B0^8D)(^BB=1)]}
@$$}1}@