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Ahh, Peter. Even better than my favorite example, one of many possible encodings: <surname initials="T">Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa, de</surname> <given-names initials="H">Henri Marie Raymond</given-names> —Debbie > On Apr 12, 2017, at 3:10 PM, Peter Flynn <peter@s...> wrote: > > So JATS would adequately cope with Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache? > > An omission in most element or field structures I have seen is any indication of which name you are conventionally addressed by (or your preference). > > I use my middle name (for irrelevant historical family reasons); Inspector Morse used his surname. The one thing we can be dogmatic about is that making assumptions into rules is always wrong 😃 > > Peter > > > On 12 April 2017 16:48:27 dal <dalapeyre@m...> wrote: > >> The JATS XML vocabulary for journal articles does a few things >> correctly: >> >> - A person does not need to have a <surname>, they can >> have only <given-names> as folks may do in Indonesia. >> >> - A person can have multiple <surname>s (partronymic etc.) >> >> - The <given-names> element can also repeat, so you can >> put all your given names into one “Kenneth Pritchard Carnu” >> or split them up into 3 <given-names> elements. >> >> Good for flexible tagging and not so good for consistency of >> tagging. >> >> —Debbie >> >> P.S. My great-uncle was assigned the middle name “None” during >> that same war. >> >> —dal >> >>> On Apr 12, 2017, at 9:10 AM, Thomas Passin <list1@t...> wrote: >>> >>> On 4/12/2017 3:43 AM, Rick Jelliffe wrote: >>>> I have often felt concern for how difficult filling out forms must be >>> >>>> I expect most of us know people with similar problems: an Indonesian >>>> mate has only one name "What is your first name?" "Munali" What is your >>>> last name?" "Munali" "So Munali Munali?" "No just Munali". Transgender >>>> people must be quite patient. Are validations against men having >>>> husbands or women having wives being disabled as we sit here? >>> >>> My father, who did not have a middle name, told me that (in World War II), when he was in the U.S Army, that his service records listed his middle name as "NMN" (No Middle Name). >> ================================================================ Deborah A Lapeyre mailto:dalapeyre@m... Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301-315-9631 (USA) Suite 207 Fax: 301-315-8385 Rockville, MD 20850 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: Consultancy for XML, XSLT, and Schematron ================================================================
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