RE: [docbook-tc] personblurb in address?

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

I agree that it's a bit strange to have either authorblurb or
personblurb in address.  I wonder why authorblurb ever ended
up there in the first place.  

I'd be more comfortable generalizing the higher level structure
(author, editor) to something like <person> and use an attribute
to identify the kind of person (author, editor, DocBook Geek).
Or add <person> with the same content model, which might be better
since author and editor are pretty deeply ingrained and (at least
author) probably used in nearly every document.

Either option would make it possible to fully identify all sorts
of people and not add extra stuff to their addresses.

Dick
rlhamilton@frii.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Hudson [mailto:scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:39 AM
> To: Norman Walsh
> Cc: docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] personblurb in address?
> 
> 
> Here's my situation, IHAC that is standardizing on DocBook 
> 4.5 and has a 
> variety of publications. Most are very straightforward, but 
> they would 
> also like to publish their Employee Directory using DocBook. 
> That means 
> for each entry, there will be a name, address, phone, email, etc.
> 
> They would also like to put in a biography and/or job 
> description. This 
> is where I thought personblurb would make the most sense, so the 
> directory would look something like:
> <book>
> <title>Employee Directory</title>
> <chapter>
> <title>Communications Division</title>
>   <address>
>     <personname>
>       <firstname>Scott</firstname><surname>Hudson</surname>
>     </personname>
>     <affiliation>
>       <orgname>Flatirons Solutions</orgname>
>       <orgdiv>Communications</orgdiv>
>     </affiliation>
>     <email>scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com</email>
>     <phone>303-542-2146</phone>
>     <fax>303-544-0522</fax>
>     <street>4747 Table Mesa Drive, Suite 200</street>
>     <city>Boulder</city> <state>CO</state> <postcode>80305</postcode>
>     <authorblurb><para>Scott likes DocBook. He's a 
> certifiable DocBook 
> geek, and a member of  the OASIS TC.</para></authorblurb>
>   </address>
> </chapter>
> </book>
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> --Scott
> 
> P.S., Plaxo is just a service I use. I got tired of maintining my 
> addressbook in multiple places, and it syncs to Outlook and 
> Thunderbird.
> 
> Norman Walsh wrote:
> > / Scott Hudson <scott.hudson@flatironssolutions.com> was 
> heard to say:
> > | according to http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/address.html, 
> authorblurb
> > | is allowed in address. Why is personblurb not also allowed (if the
> > | address is describing someone, say in an employee 
> directory, rather
> > | than an author)?
> >   
> > | Perhaps personblurb should be part of person.ident.mix?
> >
> > Both seem a little bizarre to me. Why is the blurb part of 
> the address?
> > Note that in 5.0, neither is allowed.
> >
> >   http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/address.html
> >
> > Allowing biblioref looks a bit odd in there but it's a 
> consequence of
> > allowing link and xref. I'm not sure what I think about that.
> >
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> > Is plaxo a service that you're using personally, or something that
> > Flatiron uses? (Just curious.)
> >
> >                                         Be seeing you,
> >                                           norm
> >
> >   
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
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