A method and apparatus for interfacing a personal digital assistant (PDA) with
a communications appliance is provided. The method comprising a communication station
receiving semi-structured data from a personal digital assistant (PDA) in a format
native to the PDA, and parsing the semi-structured data to identify a type of the
semi-structured data. If the semi-structured data is destination data, sending
a job to a destination indicated by the semi-structured data.