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On Jan 30, 2004, at 5:33 PM, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
> Jonathan Borden scripsit:
>
>> <person.name>
>> <given>John</given>
>> <given>William</given>
>> <family>Smith</family>
>> <suffix>Jr.</suffix>
>> </person.name>
>
> The components of person.name given by your schema are given, middle,
> family, prefix, and suffix. How do you map names like "Abu Ali
> al-Husain
> ibn Abdallah ibn Sina" (alias "Avicenna"), or "Karen Ingridsdottir",
> where "Ingridsdottir" is *not* a family name?
good question! as far as I am concerned, if all the name components are
<given> that is not a problem. I don't know enough about those names to
mark them up.
> Is "Suharto" a given name?
Again, I have no idea. Indeed I cannot guarantee that this schema
fragment actually can represent all sorts of names, only that no one
showed up at the many meetings to complain that the mechanism wasn't a
good one :-) that's how standards work -- show up at the meeting and
you get a voice.
> And do components appear in display order, as it appears here, and if
> so,
Yes. (I am glad I can answer at least one of your questions :-) Of
course you are always free to XSLT to your hearts content if "Yes"
isn't the right answer.
> how do you determine what the sort order is ("Smith, John William" for
> John, "Karen Ingridsdottir" for Karen, and who-knows-what for
> Avicenna)?
I've not considered "sort order" (not in our requirements doc :-)
>
> These are serious questions, not sarcasm.
>
Oh I have come to realize a long time ago that something as seemingly
simple as "names" are actually very complicated once the surface is
scratched. 80/20 works great when there is a dictator who decides what
falls on each side.
Jonathan
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