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Re: RFE 480957: Proposal: Improve name and address markup
/ Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh writes:
|
|> <!ELEMENT personname %ho; ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername)+)>
|
| This content model is still very much tied to a particular culture or
| three. Weren't there some ideas to allow character data directly in
| personname?
I've always thought this markup was reasonably neutral culturally. Can
you provide some examples where this is not the case?
I would hope, in the worst case, that
<personname><othername>the culturally different name</othername></personname>
would be acceptable.
Be seeing you,
norm
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