On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael Smethurst
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For now I'm marking them all up with class="nickname". Is this stretching
> the semantics of nickname too much?
>
> Should I just be POSH and use class="pseudonym"?
Even if you use class="pseudonym" you still need to decide whether to
populate N or NICKNAME.
What I mean is you either say George Eliot is given-name + family-name
or a nickname, regardless of any extra POSH semantics you'd care to
add.
The vCard RFC seems remarkably unenlightening about the semantics of
the different fields:
" Type special note: The nickname is the descriptive name given instead
of or in addition to the one belonging to a person, place, or thing.
It can also be used to specify a familiar form of a proper name
specified by the FN or N types.
Type example:
NICKNAME:Robbie
NICKNAME:Jim,Jimmie
"
Based on the two examples I'd lean towards markup up pseudonyms that
are structurally formatted like names as names, with everything else
as nickname, i.e.:
George Eliot = given-name, family-name with a pseudonym wrapper
El Greco = nickname
However I don't think there's any hard-and-fast rule about it.
-Ciaran McNulty
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