Hi all, Just talking about the concep, not the strict format of data, it seems there is a lot of types of date needed so what about to look for a dinamyc standar allowing to add and manage all possible types of information you need about the contacts using standar fields.
I mean, maybe we need to take a look beyond phone and phisical related data, I miss to include information about diferent projects, works, jobs, social networks, nicks, IRC, mails, etc... you will need if you can use those contact data information into online mode apps. Contacts has Unvariable data once it's ok you will never modify (normally), but there are a lot of possibilityes talking about Variable data, that's why I think a structured concept of data is requirecd to allow all those possibilities. Never mind it's a home data, job data or project data , given some structure by default (Home, work) you could have all the data you need. All the data bellow could be structured by Contact --> type of data [] --> channel of data [] --> Atributes of channel I attach an XML as simple example unvariable Data -- Name: Tharkos Surname: IsKool name prefix: The *** (sorry I Couldn't help it ;) ) Variable data -- Home --> mobilephone: 123 --> homephone: 3456 --> adress: Av. 410 --> city: NY Project 508 --> Nick: tharkos --> Web: www.wwwww --> Blog: blogblogblog --> IRC_channel: Black Lagoon Fan Club --> Nick: ILoveRevi --> Web: www.tharkosblacklagoongallery.com --> Avatar: jjj.jpg Identi.ca --> Nick: Tharkos --> Fan of: .... It's only an idea 8P Regards Tharkos 2010/2/10, Joachim Ott <[email protected]>: > > On 10 February 2010 13:51, Benjamin Schieder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10.02.2010 12:32:45, Niels Heyvaert wrote: > >> > >> > >> > > >> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Yogiz wrote: > >> >> * First, middle and last names (should be separate and allow sorting > by > >> >> first or last names) > >> > ...and since you're asking, also please either a 'last name prefix', > >> > or a way to do 'custom' sorting. > >> > > >> > My full name is Christ van Willegen, so that would be: > >> > - First: Christ > >> > - Last: Willegen > >> > - Last prefix: van > >> > > >> > That way, I would sort under the 'W', and not the 'V'. > >> > > >> > Or, chop off the lower-case characters at the start of the last name > >> > and sort on that... > >> > > >> > Christ van Willegen > >> > >> Hi Willegen, van (Christ), > >> > >> > >> That would be a local hack to support users in the Netherlands since > >> they are the only ones to chop their last name in smaller bits. > > > > Actually, the Germans do it as well: > > Prince Gloria von Thurn und Taxis > > Now that's even more, it requires another prefix:: First prefix: Princess > (btw) > > And don't forget that someone can have several first names like this one: > > Dr. Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph > Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user >
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Contact_list> <Contacts id="0"> <Format/> <Version/> <Unvariable_data> <Name/> <Surname/> <Birthday_date/> <Birthday_place/> <Photo/> <Name_pefix/> <Surname_prefix/> <Father_name/> <Mother_name/> </Unvariable_data> <Variable_data> <Types id="0"> <Type/> <Name_type/> <Phones id="0"> <Type/> <Name_type/> <Number/> <Operator/> <Default/> <Notes/> </Phones> <Addresses id="0"> <Type/> <Name_type/> <Country/> <Address_str/> <City/> <Zip/> <Country/> <POB/> <Default/> <Notes/> </Addresses> <Networks id="0"> <Type/> <Name_type/> <Network/> <Nick/> <Link/> <Default/> <Notes/> </Networks> </Types> </Variable_data> </Contacts> </Contact_list>
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