Edward O'Connor wrote:
Andy Mabbett wrote:
I have a need to mark up some people's names, which are given as
initials only, and where the full names for which those initials
stand are not known. For example, "A. N. Other".
[...]
In the absence of an "initials" property, how would you mark up
such a name, in an hCard?
How about <abbr> without @title? This seems to have the semantic of
"I know this is an abbreviation for something, but I don't know that
something." E.g.
<span class="vcard"> <a href="http://foo.example.com/"; class="url fn
n"> <abbr class="given-name">A</abbr>. <abbr
class="additional-name">N</abbr>. <span
class="family-name">Other</span> </a> </span>
I think Andy's problem was that you don't know that A. is the initial
for the given name, since not all first names are given names. It could
be N. See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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