[uf-discuss] abbr with empty or no title (was: Re: marking up initials in names)

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <m2k5muvj65.fsf at gmail.com>, Edward O'Connor
<hober0 at gmail.com> writes

>Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
>> I have a need to mark up some people's names, which are given as
>> initials only, and where the full names for which those initials stand
>> are not known. For example, "A. N. Other".
>[...]
>> In the absence of an "initials" property, how would you mark up such a
>> name, in an hCard?
>
>How about <abbr> without @title?

Semantically, that might make sense (and is valid HTML), but how would
parsers handle missing titles, given the abbr-design-pattern? [1]

There is still the issue of what class names are most apt, though.


[1] Two examples at the start of:

        <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/test/>

which Operator handles (plaudits due!) but for which X2V returns null
values.

Is this something else which needs clarifying and codifying in the
abbr-design-pattern spec?

I've added it to the issues page:

  <http://microformats.org/wiki?title=abbr-design-pattern-issues#Issues>

-- 
Andy Mabbett