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[can't resist side issues; sorry] On Tue, 16 May 2000, John Cowan wrote: |Separate first-name and last-name elements are not good internationalization, |because some people don't have identifiable first names and last names, |or if they do, they may not mean what you expect; e.g. Hungarian, Japanese, |and Chinese names have the family name first. I would argue that au contraire separating first and last name elements *is* good internationalization precisely because different cultures handle treatment of names differently. if you tag family name and given name distinctly, for example, then you can display them in the appropriate order as well as processing them correctly without any redundancy. | |It's probably better to use "cname" (common name) and "sname" (surname or |sortable name) elements, where sname is typically last name and cname is |typically the whole name in normal order. That way |<cname>John Cowan</cname><sname>Cowan</sname> works |well, but so does <cname>Murata Makoto</cname><sname>Murata</sname>. |The minor redundancy is well worth it. Or maybe <persName><surname>Murata</surname><givenName>Makoto</givenName></persName> If you're really keen to do onomastics, you can find some interesting suggestions about possibly useful tags and ways of handling them in the TEI Guidelines chapter on names and dates (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Guidelines/ND.htm) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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