[ docbook-RFEs-1770787 ] Rename firstname and surname

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RFEs item #1770787, was opened at 2007-08-09 09:14
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Category: None
Group: v5.1
Status: Open
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Norman Walsh (nwalsh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Rename firstname and surname

Initial Comment:
I've now received (at least) two separate suggestions that we rename firstname to givenname and surname to familyname. Most recently, here:

http://norman.walsh.name/2007/05/23/docbook50CR4#comment0001

Now is the time, I suppose.


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>Comment By: Norman Walsh (nwalsh)
Date: 2009-04-14 12:23

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Fixed in (what will be) v5.1.

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Comment By: Norman Walsh (nwalsh)
Date: 2009-03-28 08:10

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Making this change, which is backwards incompatible, would now be quite
difficult. The TC decided that a reasonable compromise would be to allow
givenname as an *alternative* to firstname. A compelling argument was made
that surname *is* a reasonable tag name, but firstname is very western
centric.

This is a backwards compatible change so can be made in the next release.

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Comment By: Norman Walsh (nwalsh)
Date: 2007-09-27 08:46

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The TC concluded that this is a feature request not a bug and will not be
addressed before 5.1.

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Comment By: Michael(tm) Smith (xmldoc)
Date: 2007-08-13 03:23

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Here's a link to the thread where this was discussed on the docbook
mailing list:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200708/threads.html#00005

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Comment By: Michael(tm) Smith (xmldoc)
Date: 2007-08-09 21:23

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Replacing firstname with givenname seems like a clear improvement. The
rationale for that change is maybe obvious enough that I
really doubt anybody can or will reasonably object to it.

But it doesn't seem obvious to me at least that replacing surname with
familyname would be a clear improvement.

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