RFE #1770787 rename firstname and surname (resolved)

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

In a post 5.0 world, renaming firstname and surname would be an
expensive, backwards incompatible change. Instead the TC decided a
reasonable compromise would be to allow givenname as an alternative to
firstname. The argument being that surname *is* a reasonable tagname,
but firstname is too western centric.

That went over well, and is not backwards incompatible.

Index: pool.rnc
===================================================================
--- pool.rnc	(revision 8381)
+++ pool.rnc	(working copy)
@@ -2974,11 +2974,9 @@
       element personname {
          db.personname.attlist,
          (db._text
-          | (db.honorific
-           | db.firstname
-           | db.surname
-           | db.lineage
-           | db.othername)+)
+          | (db.honorific | db.firstname | db.surname | db.lineage | db.othername)+
+          | (db.honorific | db.givenname | db.surname | db.lineage | db.othername)+
+         )
       }
 }
 
@@ -3893,6 +3891,28 @@
 # ======================================================================
 
 [
+   db:refname [ "givenname" ]
+   db:refpurpose [ "The given name of a person" ]
+]
+div {
+
+   db.givenname.role.attribute = attribute role { text }
+
+   db.givenname.attlist =
+      db.givenname.role.attribute?
+    & db.common.attributes
+    & db.common.linking.attributes
+
+   db.givenname =
+      element givenname {
+         db.givenname.attlist,
+         db._text
+      }
+}
+
+# ======================================================================
+
+[
    db:refname [ "surname" ]
    db:refpurpose [ "A family name; in western cultures the last name" ]
 ]


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                                          norm

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