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Subject: Re: [docbook-tc] xNAL, <personname>,& RFE 480957 (Name and address markup)
/ Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> was heard to say: | Outside of Ram Kumar's general request that we review their xNAL DTD, | I don't think there's been a specific proposal from anyone to change | the <address> content model -- no as part of RFE 480957 at least. That's true. We were really only looking at personal names. Having looked more closely at their content models, I have to say some of them seem quite strange. (Why does country allow addresslines and thoroughfare?) | Moving onto the "name" part of the xNAL DTD, their person-name markup | is at: > | http://www.logopoeia.com/xml/xNAL/personname.html > | and compared to the address markup, looks a bit less complicated > | personname ::= | ( precedingtitle * , title * , firstname * , middlename * , | lastnameprefix ? , lastname * , othername * , formername * , | alias * , generationidentifier * , suffix * , generalsuffix ? ) > | The content of most of those child elements is #PCDATA. > | But it's still more complicated than the new DocBook <personname> | element that Norm has proposed as part of RFE 480957: > | personname ::= | ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername)+) So I think we can say that our name markup is a subset of theirs, with a little remapping: honorific = title firstname = firstname surname = lastname lineage = generationidentifier othername = othername I don't think there's any compelling reason for us to harmonize towards their names for the individual components. And even if there was, I'd be opposed because I happen to think that 'lastname' is a poor choice for I18N reasons (they aren't always last, and what does last mean in a bidi text?). | If we add a <personname> element, it seems reasonable that a user | might want to use it within a normal <para> or whatever to mark up the Yes, I agree. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The important thing is not what http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | the author, or any artist, had in Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | mind to begin with but at what | point he decided to stop.--D. W. | Harding
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