[uf-discuss] Real vs. stage names

[Paul Wilkins]

Andy Mabbett wrote:
> Tantek Çelik writes
>> Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>> How would folks mark up an hCard for the singer Alvin Stardust, born
>>> Bernard William Jewry, also known under the stage name Shane Fenton?
>> What's his passport look like?
> Oddly enough, he's never sent it to me.

>> That would answer the given-name, family-name questions, and perhaps 
>> even the additional-name and nickname questions.
> And otherwise?

And otherwise, like this.

Start with what you know.

<p>singer Alvin Stardust, Bernard William Jewry, also known under the 
stage name Shane Fenton.</p>

Markup what you can, like the persons name
<p class="vcard">singer Alvin Stardust,
   <span class="fn">Bernard William Jewry</span>,
   also known under the stage name Shane Fenton.</p>

Then you move on to nicknames

The cheatsheet on the wiki at 
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard-cheatsheet says nicknames can match 0 
or more times, and just to make sure, RFC2426 which defined the vCard 
spec says about Nicknames:
Type value: One or more text values separated by a COMMA character

So if multiple nicknames are listed, they'll end up being comma separated.

<p class="vcard">singer
   <span class="nickname">Alvin Stardust</span>,
   <span class="fn">Bernard William Jewry</span>,
   also known under the stage name
   <span class="nickname">Shane Fenton</span>.</p>

And finally you can sprinkle other things, like his role and stagename

<p class="vcard">
   <span class="role">singer</span>
   <span class="nickname">Alvin Stardust</span>,
   <span class="fn">Bernard William Jewry</span>,
   also known under the
   <span class="note">stage name
     <span class="nickname">Shane Fenton</span>
   </span>.</p>


-- 
Paul Wilkins