About the challenge of building a common XML vocabulary...

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How many elements/attributes contains your XML representation of a person’s name?

  • One (Fullname)

  • Two (Firstname, Lastname)

  • Three (Firstname, Middlename, Lastname)

  • Four (Title, Firstname, Middlename, Lastname)

  • …

Check out the schema published by the HR-XML Consortium for the very same problem: PersonName 1.2 recommendation.

Pretty interesting how complicated naming can be!