Tobias Schlemmer wrote:
>
> I thought about it before.
> But the problem is, that I didn't talk of nicknames but of real names which
> have to be printed as an single name. In documents names are printed like
> "Rudolf _Tobias_ Schlemmer" where Tobias is underlined. This design I would
> like to use when printing reports. Because it is very small and is
> understandable for persens who don't know about "genes". So the program I
> want to use HAS to make a difference between unmarked and marked parts of
> the name. Perhaps it doesn't need to be a semantical marking, but at least
> a formal.
>
Ah, the proverbial light of insight has increased by a few lumens.
Well, since we're still at such an early stage of development, we should
be able to integrate this into the application. The question then
becomes how it is done.
It seems that the easiest would be to keep the schema as it is but save
the name fields using some form of XML to markup the tagged portion of
the text. By saving the data in XML, we're still saving a plain text
field, but the XML tags can easily mark which portions need to be
underlined when the record is displayed on the screen or printed on a
report. This has the side advantage of reducing the number of records
that are needed to store the information for this kind of data.
The only requirement, then would be that the data entry screens and the
reports are able to handle the extra data in this field.
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