Re: vCard DTD

Jason R. Cupp (jcupp@essc.psu.edu)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 12:06:23 -0800

Chris Maden wrote:
>
> [Jason R. Cupp]
> > <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA,firstname,surname,other?,suffix?,prefix?)>
>
> This content model is not legal. Any mixed content must be of the
> forms:
>
> (#PCDATA)
> (#PCDATA | element1 | element2 | ... | elementN)*
>
> I'd recommend just leaving the #PCDATA out of the name, but that will
> make migration from existing vcards more difficult, since they don't
> distinguish the fields of the name, do they?

Do the content models in XML and SGML differ here? I've seen the first
example around somewhere. Vcards offer two items: formatted name for
looks and a structured name. Replicating this in XML could look like
this:
<person>
<fname>Santa Clause</fname>
<name>
<first>...</first>
<surname>...</surname>
<middle>...</middle>
...
</name>
</person>

Which would translate more directly into Vcard, but have extra
information for a straight HTML,TEXT conversion. Or,

<person>
<name>
<first>Santa</first><surname>Clause</surname>
</name>

Conversion to HTML or TEXT would either ignore the tags inside <name> or
use them to generate an index. Would it be tricker to get this into
Vcard?

-- 
Jason R. Cupp (jcupp@essc.psu.edu)
Deasy GeoGraphics
The Pennsylvania State University


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