I am forwarding a message that Andy Mabbett sent to a couple of us involved with hAudio development because it is a valid opposition to the proposed resolution to hAudio issue D1.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > * The contributor's name SHOULD also be marked up as a valid hCard > Microformat. <http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard> For the record; I do not regard the above as resolving (nor even addressing) the issue highlighted in the e-mail cited in the issue-log. > * If multiple contributors are specified, without |role| > specifications, it /MAY/ be assumed that the first role mentioned > is the primary artist or creator. This does not work for collaborations: Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Robert Plant & Alison Krause and does not work in prose or tables like: Simon Rattle / Beethoven's Fifth >This applies to plain-text > contributor markup as well. Really? How will parsers handle: Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel Paul Simon Art Garfunkel Paul Simon/ Art Garfunkel Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel Paul Simon und Art Garfunkel Paul Simon et Art Garfunkel and every other language (and character-set) variant; and how will they differentiate between: Paul Simon-Art Garfunkel and: John-Paul Jones [Other interested parties CCd] -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
