[uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in "A. B. Smith" format

[Graham Higgins]

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On 29 Aug 2006, at 15:42, Brian S wrote:

> you shouldn't make assumptions about what the 'A.' and 'B.' mean...  
> i did in my example (otherwise it would have been a pretty boring  
> reply).


> There is a service which attempts at guessing the N structure.[1]  
> It isn't perfect, but does fairly well.
> [1] - http://tools.microformatic.com/help/xhtml/best-guess/

Sorry, I'm having a little difficulty reading between the lines, is  
this another troll along the lines of the first one?

Because,

http://tools.microformatic.com/query/xhtml/best-guess/Rt+Hon+Lord 
+Ashdown+KBE

is parsed as:

> <span class="n">
> 	<span class="given-name">Rt</span>
> 	<span class="additional-name">Hon</span>
> 	<span class="additional-name">Lord</span>
> 	<span class="additional-name">Ashdown</span>
> 	<span class="family-name">KBE</span>
> </span>

It's tempting to respond with a facetious: "<bong> thank you for  
playing, next contestant please".

But if I did that, I suspect that I'd be missing some subtle point.  
Are you perhaps prompting us to conjecture that a successful parse is  
impossible without a rich set of semantics?

Cheers,

GJ.



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