[uf-discuss] Best practice for the "value" subproperty

[Costello, Roger L.]

Very interesting idea Andy.  Thanks.

Okay, now we have three design approaches to marking up this text:

        John will be our speaker.  Mr. Public will talk about ...

The three designs are:

Design #1

<span class="fn">
        <span class="value">John </span>
        will be our speaker.  Mr. 
        <span class="value">Public</span> 
</span> 
will talk about ...

The value of "fn" is the concatenation of the "value" subproperties:

    fn = concat('John ', 'Public') = John Public

Notice the space after John.  This enables the fn value to be
formatted.

Design #2

<span class="fn">
        <span class="value">John</span>
        <span class="value"> </span>
        will be our speaker.  Mr. 
        <span class="value">Public</span> 
</span> 
will talk about ...

The value of "fn" is the concatenation of the "value" subproperties:

    fn = concat('John', ' ', 'Public') = John Public

Notice that now there is a concatenation of three values, the middle
being a "spacer value."

Design #3

<abbr class="fn" title="John Public">John</abbr>
 will be our speaker.  Mr. Public will talk about ...

This third approach completely sidesteps the need for the "value"
subproperty.

Which design is best practice?  What are the pros and cons to each
design?

/Roger



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Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] Best practice for the "value" subproperty

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<B8415163A689094689542C617ECA0366011FF14D at IMCSRV5.MITRE.ORG>,
"Costello, Roger L." <costello at mitre.org> writes

><span class="fn">
>        <span class="value">John </span>
>        will be our speaker.  Mr.
>        <span class="value">Public</span>
></span> will talk about ...


I would mark that up as:

   <abbr class="fn" title="John Public">John</abbr>
   will be our speaker.  Mr. Public will talk about ...

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