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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Markup for personal names
/ Horacio <homega@ciberia.es> was heard to say: | [messing up a bit] | | On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Wroth, M. LTC MATH wrote: | | > <personalname><givenname>Mark</givenname><secondname>B.</secondname><surname>Wroth</surname><lineal>Jr</lineal></personalname> | | I much prefer <forename> to <givenname>, and the simpler <name> | to <personalname>. We've already got honorific, firstname, surname, lineage, and othername inside of author, editor, etc. I don't see any motivation to rename those elements. | > Element surname | > May contain itself (e.g. <surname><surname>Vega</surname> | > y <surname>Asturias</surname></surname> Do we really need this level of markup in technical documentation. Are there situations where <surname>Vega y Asturias</surname> wouldn't be sufficient? (I'm not opposed to allowing it, in principal, I'm just trying to understand the problem space.) | <name> | <forename role="religious">John Paul <line>II</line></forename>, | nče <name><forename>Karol</forename> | <surname>Wojtila</surname></name> | </name> | | (may be other religious leaders do take names too... the Lamas | do... and Christian nuns too). Not often necessary in technical documentation, I expect. Prayers for help in meeting deadlines not withstanding. :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The things we have most longed for http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | do not happen; or if they do, it Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | is never at the time nor under the | circumstances when they could have | made us happiest.--La Bruy\`ere
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