Honorific element formatting placement via an attribute

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

Hello,

There are some honorifics (Mr., Emperor) that
are written before the name, and some,
(Esquire, PhD.) which appear after.  At
present DocBook has no way of distinguishing
the two.

My thought is that the honorific element
be given an attribute, perhaps "placement",
to give the formatter guidance as to where
the honorific should appear.

This has been a problem for me.  The "role" 
attribute can always be used and some
custom solution kludged together but it
seems a good idea to address the issue
in a more formal manner.

Regards,

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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