I just looked over the hcard spec again. 'fn' is formatted name, and it implies another element 'n', which is required by the vCard spec. In the XMDP profile for hCard, they refer us to this section of the vCard RFC:
3.1.2 N Type Definition To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Registration of text/directory MIME type N Type name: N Type purpose: To specify the components of the name of the object the vCard represents. Type encoding: 8bit Type value: A single structured text value. Each component can have multiple values. Type special note: The structured type value corresponds, in sequence, to the Family Name, Given Name, Additional Names, Honorific Prefixes, and Honorific Suffixes. The text components are separated by the SEMI-COLON character (ASCII decimal 59). Individual text components can include multiple text values (e.g., multiple Additional Names) separated by the COMMA character (ASCII decimal 44). This type is based on the semantics of the X.520 individual name attributes. The property MUST be present in the vCard object. Type example: N:Public;John;Quinlan;Mr.;Esq. N:Stevenson;John;Philip,Paul;Dr.;Jr.,M.D.,A.C.P. So I think this means we can use 'n' as well as of 'fn' for delimited names in hCard: <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Hochstein, L</span> <span class="n">Hochstein;L,Lorin;;Dr.,Ph.D.</span> </span> 'fn' is really just the display value of 'n'... Does anyone who knows more about hCard than me want to approve or correct that? -mike On 3/29/06, Alf Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29 Mar 2006, at 14:34, Michael McCracken wrote: > > > <span class="author vcard"> > > <a class="fn">Lorin Hochstein</a> > > </span> > > That's an interesting problem, because what happens if the authors > names are in the format "Surname, Initials". Do you have to use an > abbreviation? > > alf. > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss