--On March 15, 2006 4:25:40 PM +1100 Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since the original discussion I've stumbled across something extra that > makes xml:lang relevant for atom:name. > > Seems that in writing Hungarian names, the pattern is always surname > followed by forename - e.g. Bartók Béla, where Béla is the personal name and > Bartók is the family name. Or Margittai Neumann János vs. John von Neumann. It can be more complicated than first/last or last/first. I'm pretty sure that I brought this up and the WG decided to punt. Representing personal names well means starting with X.500 and asking around to see what could be improved. That is well outside the Atom charter. Punting was the right thing to do, but it means that atom:name is minimal. xml:lang isn't enough information to sort out given name and family name. About all you can do with atom:name is print it out. xml:lang could be useful in deciding between Chinese and Japanese variants of a character for names. wunder -- Walter Underwood Principal Software Architect, Autonomy
