[kde-doc-english] personname & othercredit

[Éric Bischoff]

Le Mercredi 3 Décembre 2003 17:40, Frederik Fouvry a écrit :
> ,-- Le Sat, 29 Nov, É. ric Bischoff a écrit le suivant:
> | Le Vendredi 28 Novembre 2003 22:21, Bob Lockie a écrit :
> | > 1. Should I use the "personname" tag to enclose the "firstname", etc.?
> |
> | I would says "Yes". I think that <personname> has been added to allow us
> | to remove the strange <affiliation> construct. Frederik, can you confirm
> | ?
>
> I don't exactly know anymore what the reason was (I think it also
> had to do with the use of entities for names: personname is
> allowed (almost?) everywhere, while you cannot use a sequence of
> elements in an entity).  The affiliation element always has been
> a pain for us, so it's better if it's not needed.  Anyway, yes,
> you should use personname (which also allows the attachment of
> email addresses, which makes maintenance of those in the
> documentation much more easy).

OK. How would update the doc template to replace <affiliation> construct with 
<personname> ?

> | > 2. What is the role= part of "othercredit" used for since it is not in
> | > the original oasis DocBook?
> | > eg. <othercredit role="developer">
> |
> | Kind of job with respect to this pecular documentation. We also have
> | editors, proofreaders, translators, etc.
>
> As far as I recollect, the list of allowed values is limited in
> the DTD (for the XSL style sheets).

I remember the same.

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