Re: [vwrap] Removing first name / last name assumptions?

[Dzonatas Sol <[e-mail]>]

Barry Leiba wrote:
>  Here's a
> sampling of agent-identifiers, each within quotes just to make it
> clear where they start and end:
>    " Joshua Linden "
>    ".Joshua.Linden."  (another way to represent the same thing)
>    "/Joshua/Linden/"  (a third)
>    "XJoshuaXLindenX"  (a fourth)
>    " Melanie "  (an identifier with just one part)
>    "rMelanier"  (the same, in another representation)
>    ".Melanie."  (or less weirdly)
>    " Barak Hussein Obama "   (here's one with three parts)
>    "+Peter+Blair+Dennis+Bernard+Noone+" (a five-part one; extra credit
> if you're old enough to know who he is)
>    "~le roy~barr~"  (Meadhbh's example with an embedded blank)
>
>   
Another suggestion, if one used XML like tags:

<first>Barak</first> Hussein <last>Obama</last>

Then the string can be escaped into the name field. For those that don't 
want first/last, they just skip the tags. For those that only want 
first/last, they pull the text only within with first/last tags.