Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-31 Thread Ciaran McNulty
On 8/31/06, Jeremy Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was working an intranet site for a posh estate agent recently, and they had all sorts of ludicrous edge cases in their database of upper- class landed gentry. I work for a site that deals in the Construction industry, and for whatever reason,

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-31 Thread Jeremy Keith
Dave wrote: I'm still very new to this however I'm not sure that using an abbreviation: abbr class=fn title=Charles WindsorHis Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales/abbr would be the most appropriate, especially considering that the abbrevited text is longer than it's title. I agree. I

RE: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-31 Thread David Randall
] On Behalf Of Jeremy Keith Sent: 31 August 2006 11:27 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format Dave wrote: I'm still very new to this however I'm not sure that using an abbreviation: abbr class=fn title=Charles WindsorHis Royal Highness

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-31 Thread Gazza
David Randall mumbled the following on 31/08/2006 11:01: I suppose the abbreviation pattern could theoretically be butchered for this purpose: abbr class=fn title=Charles WindsorHis Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales/abbr Royalty is a tricky one - how would you add other titles like

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-31 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 8/31/06, Jeremy Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example, the name might be Charles Windsor, but the form of address is His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales. What about honorific-prefix? Bruce ___ microformats-discuss mailing list

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-30 Thread Drew McLellan
On 30 Aug 2006, at 13:29, Graham Higgins wrote: On 29 Aug 2006, at 15:42, Brian S wrote: 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). There is a service which attempts at guessing the N

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 8/28/06, Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Question Andy, you have several potential quirks with the string A. B. Smith. 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: Yeah, but I don't think you

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Ciaran McNulty
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

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 8/29/06, Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Exactly. Middle name is a silly concept in the real world, particularly

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes vcard for someone whose name is given as A. B. Smith. Good Question Andy, you have several potential quirks with the string A. B. Smith. [...] We need to explicitly mark-up what each portion of the string means. div class=vcard

[uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
I need to mark up a vcard for someone whose name is given as A. B. Smith. I can't seem to find such an example on the wiki. How should I do so? -- Andy Mabbett Say NO! to compulsory ID Cards: http://www.no2id.net/ Free Our Data: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk

Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-28 Thread Brian Suda
Good Question Andy, you have several potential quirks with the string A. B. Smith. 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: First, just like all names in hCard we need to create an 'FN' container inside