[uf-discuss] Re: hCard creator and multitoken given/family names

[Henri Sivonen]

On Mar 28, 2007, at 21:00, Ryan King wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> Then it appears that hCard creator (http://microformats.org/code/ 
>> hcard/creator) is broken.
>>
>> If I enter "Jesus Maria" as the given name and "van der Boer y  
>> Gonzales" as the family name, I get:
>> <span class="fn">Jesus Maria van der Boer y Gonzales</span>
>
> This is a bug caused by lack of foresight on my part. It should be  
> fixed now.

Thanks.

>> I'd be interested in a design rationale pointer explaining why  
>> having more than two tokens in an fn is not allowed when the  
>> information about the roles of the tokens is unavailable to the  
>> producer of the markup. Is this something that has been inherited  
>> wholesale from vCard?
>
> Having more than 2 tokens in an fn is allowed, it's just not useful  
> for calculating an implied-n.

Now I'm confused. Is it allowed even if the same hCard does not  
contain an explicit n or explicit name part tokens? Where is it  
specified that more than 2 tokens in an fn are allowed?

I'm not objecting. fn with more than 2 token is what I was asking  
for. I just don't see spec text allowing it.

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Henri Sivonen
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