I completely agree, if you are gathering this data via some web form and you only capture 'name: ______' you shouldn't make assumptions about what the 'A.' and 'B.' mean... i did in my example (otherwise it would have been a pretty boring reply).
In general, if you yourself are going the marking-up of data that you KNOW the meaning of, then certainly add the semantics where you can. Otherwise, you can get into a big mess when you assume too much! There is a service which attempts at guessing the N structure.[1] It isn't perfect, but does fairly well. -brian [1] - http://tools.microformatic.com/help/xhtml/best-guess/ On 8/29/06, Ciaran McNulty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Bruce D'Arcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am assuming 'A' is an abberiviation for a first name? 'B' is a > > middle name, and 'Smith' is the last name you can do the following: > On 8/28/06, Brian Suda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, but I don't think you can asssume that. Better to just treat "A. > B." as the given-name string. That's a good point, there are quite a few people whose given name is their 'middle' name, it could be A. Brian Smith or Anthony B. Smith, you can't necessarily assume. -Ciaran _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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