Pessimist Michael :-)
Michael(tm) Smith wrote:
You might want to take a look at this:
[Proposal for adding name-format markup to the CLDR]
http://unicode.org/cldr/bugs/locale-bugs/future?id=177;user=guest
Handling display/ordering of names across locales is complex
enough (see the example of Irish naming in the above) that I
suspect you're probably going to find it very difficult to put
together portable markup for it.
Assumptions I'm making.
1. I don't have to derive an honorific (or any variant).
Either the content is marked up or it's not.
I don't think for docbook deriving names is reasonable.
2.I can see how
<nameOrder>hfml</nameOrder>
<namePattern>%h%b%f%b%m%b%l</namePattern>
might work, but it just seems laborious (could be me though).
I'd prefer to use xml markup, and simply refer to the names?
<namePattern>
<honorific/>
<space/>
<firstName/>
....
</namePattern>
If the el name can't be found in the item I'm formatting then it's a
blow up job? Or ignore it.
I do like the spacing idea though (%b) to move the layout task to the
author.
<xsl:text>might be the simplest</xsl:text>
Thoughts?
regards
--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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