RE: Name relationships in vCard 3.0

You are absolutely right. What I so clumsily tried to remark was that
the example Jeff provided is not correct unless the names Mr. John Q.
Public and Mrs. Fanny Mae Putenesca designate the same person (not
impossible, of course :)).

Regards,
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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> nombre de Misha Wolf
> Enviado el: jueves, 09 de septiembre de 2004 12:19
> Para: Germ=E1n M. Rivera; Jeff Parrish; [email protected]
> Asunto: RE: Name relationships in vCard 3.0
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> No, it is not "assumed that the name of the object (a person) is
> unique".  This would clearly be a wrong assumption.  Has Michael
> Jackson made any hit singles recently?  He has not.  I'm referring
> to the originator of Jackson Structured Programming.  Whom did you
> think I meant?
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> FN and N should describe the same person, but I don't believe there
> is anything in vCard that forces a textual equivalence between them.
> If I wanted to, I could put "Dubya" in my FN type and something
> completely different in the individual fields of my N type (eg "Bush"
> and "George" and "W").
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> Misha Wolf
> Standards Manager
> Product and Platform Architecture Group
> Reuters
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Germ=E1n M. Rivera
> Sent: 09 September 2004 09:01
> To: 'Jeff Parrish'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Name relationships in vCard 3.0
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> Hi Jeff,
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> As you can see in the RFC, this is the FN type purpose:
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> "To specify the formatted text corresponding to the name of the object
> the vCard represents"
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> and this is the N type purpose:
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> "To specify the components of the name of the object the vCard
> represents"
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> Of course, it is assumed that the name of the object (a person) is
> unique, so these two types should describe the same content.
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> Hope this helps,
> Germ=E1n
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> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]
> En
> > nombre de Jeff Parrish
> > Enviado el: jueves, 09 de septiembre de 2004 2:36
> > Para: [email protected]
> > Asunto: Name relationships in vCard 3.0
> >
> >
> > What is the relationship between the N: and FN: types. In
particular,
> > there is nothing I can find in the RFC that explicitly requires the
> > contents of these types to match, and both fields are mandatory. Is
> > there a reason to allow them to mismatch? If not, the contents of
FN:
> > need to be generated from the contents of N:, or else the contents
of
> > the two types may not match (see below)
> >
> > 	FN:Mr. John Q. Public\, Esq.
> > 	N:Putenesca;Fanny;Mae;Mrs
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff Parrish
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