About the challenge of building a common XML vocabulary...

How many elements/attributes contains your XML representation of a person’s name?

• One (Fullname)

• Two (Firstname, Lastname)

• Three (Firstname, Middlename, Lastname)

• Four (Title, Firstname, Middlename, Lastname)

• …

Check out the schema published by the HR-XML Consortium for the very same problem: PersonName 1.2 recommendation.

Pretty interesting how complicated naming can be!

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 26, 2004
  Six
  ( Title, Firstname, Middlename, LastName, Surname, GivenName, PostTitle( Jr, Sr, 1st, 2Nd, 3Rd))