Re: People's names

Hi Misha,

At 14:39 21/02/2006, Misha Wolf wrote:
<blockquote>
(...)
Having considered this further, I propose that we stick with a
single element ("name") and create distinct attributes for distinct
purposes.  I suggest that we should use NMTOKENS only when we need
to specify two values from the same family of values.
(...)

4. Rendition of name (attribute name "rendition")
-------------------------------------------------

An example value is: rnd:pronounce.

An example is:

   <name rendition="rnd:pronounce">Koizumi Jun'ichirō</name>

</blockquote>

The rendition example transliterates the characters from the Japanese writing
system to Latin, but the pronunciation convention for these Latin characters is
not defined. There are many languages that use the Latin alphabet, with very
different pronunciations for some of these letters (z, u and j are just the 
most
obvious examples). I assume that NewsML wants to avoid the use of IPA 
(International
Phonetic Alphabet), but then it needs to define which language's pronunciation
rules should be used to pronounce the transliterated string. It would 
result in
(sometimes wildly) different pronunciations in Dutch, French, English, German
and Spanish, to name just a few that I'm familiar with.

Regards,

Christophe Strobbe


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Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2006 13:59:28 UTC