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>> I think that if you have a straight-up name field, you either end up >> being culturally obtuse or also needing a bunch of parallel fields for >> various collation scenarios. > > That's what I meant by the field needing to be repeatable. Chris > Maden devised the system that $EMPLOYER is using, which involves > personNameProfile elements which are themselves repeatable, and which have > children for purpose, pattern (what order to put the textual elements in), > the (meta-)name of this profile, full name, and five elements for name > parts: givenName (repeatable), familyName (repeatable), prefix, suffix, > nickname, and full name, all of which are optional. There is continual > pressure to add middleName, but so far we have effectively resisted it: > canonical U.S. middle names are additional given names. Straying off topic - why not use the foaf markup? -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com
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