> But are the meanings really different? A name is a name. Here's a
> better example:
>
> <book>
> <title>Mary Barton</title>
> <author>
> <nameProfile>
> <purpose>legal</purpose>
> <givenName>Elizabeth</givenName>
> <familyName>Gaskell</familyName>
> </nameProfile>
> <nameProfile>
> <purpose>authorial</purpose>
> <title>Mrs.</title>
> <familyName>Gaskell</familyName>
> </nameProfile>
> </author>
> </book>
>
> Here there is genuine ambiguity between the title of a book and the
> title of a person. The name profile schema I mentioned in my last
> post uses "prefix" instead. But even if it didn't, the context would
> disambiguate between book/title and nameProfile/title.
This thread seems to be heading towards the nasty style of markup like:
<book>
<book-title>...</
<book-author>
<book-author-name>
...
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Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
