On 5/21/05, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> * Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-21 17:30]:
> > what if <author> in that example was renamed to <byline> (and
> > specced to be something other than a Person Construct),

What are you talking about? Please refrain from complaining your pet
semantics aren't in the draft. Here are some simple questions, which
you can answer by reading the example I gave, and reading the draft.

http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg15380.html

Who is the author of that entry?
Who are the contributors?

There is no mention of 'byline'. You are complaining that you can't
have multiple 'authors' for some definition of 'author', because of
element cardinality. I observe that Ben Lund's example, with multiple
dc:creator elements, was a failure. Multiple author elements failed
the science journal use case, the basis of your original objection.
format-08 works.

I fully agree that other ways of arranging authors and contributors
are possible and reasonable, but no one has demonstrated a document
that format-08 can't cover. At this stage, changing the spec to suit
religious preferences would be extremely arrogant.

Robert Sayre

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