DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for personal names

[Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

>   <*info>
>     <person class="author" id="norm">...</person>
>   </*info>
>   ...
>   <para>The author, <person ref="norm"/>, ...</para>

Sure :)

> But maybe <xref> would be sufficient there. OTOH, it would be nice to
> be able to check that person references really were references to
> persons.  Dunno. This plays into the longstanding "universal linking"
> planning as well.

Solved for TEI since ages (it a known fact the XLink will borrow a lot
from TEI).  TEI features a module for names and dates, IIRC...
checking... the file is called 'teind2.dtd'.

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