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Subject: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names
I've had a long standing action item to write a new proposal for "names and addresses". So I've been thinking about personal names. Right now we have author, editor, etc. but there's clearly a desire to markup other sorts of personal names (other sorts of contributors) and to cleanup the association of names and addresses. Rather than reinvent the wheel from scratch, I wonder if there are any sources we could borrow from. Does anyone know of a good name markup schema? In the meantime, there are a few high-level issues we can discuss. Our current design was influenced by the fact that we originally viewed bibliographic markup as "raw" with the expectation that a processor would generate all of the markup. We now have have "cooked" forms that allow authors to put in the markup. So one top-level question we could ask is, do we want <person><firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname></person> or something like <person>Norman Walsh</person> I note that the latter form is the one that professional librarians actually use because there are too many cultural traditions for a reliable decomposition to be possible. If we want the former form, how many of these forms do we want to be able to support: Norman Walsh Norman ("Norm") Walsh Norm Mr. Walsh Norman D. Walsh and from what markup? Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | No matter how cynical I get, I http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | find I just can't keep up.--Lily Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | Tomlin
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