RE: People's names

Dan Brickley wrote:

> (nice to see this discussion happening...)

:-)

> > I see four orthogonal axes (which can be combined as required): 
> > part, scope, formality, purpose.

> XML attributes aren't repeatable. Does this nicely suit yor 
> intended meaning, or is it a purely syntactic restricution? eg. 
> could a single name string have 2 or more values for 'formality'? 
> Or do you intend the values for each axis (including their 
> extensions) to be mutually exclusive?

The proposal is to use NMTOKENS for multiple values, eg:

  <name scope="scp:work scp:usual">Marilyn Monroe</name>

or:

  <name scope="scp:birth scp:work scp:usual">Lucy Stone</name>

  [See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Stone]

Misha


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