Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - RE: [xml-dev] Schema fragments for everyday stuff [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] Schema fragments for everyday stuffTo: michael.h.kay@--------.--- Date: 2/2/2004 8:33:00 PM Michael Kay wrote: >>Surely a mere preference, not affecting one's legal name, is >>insufficient to activate this. >> >> > >In England if you make a public statement that you wish to be known by a >particular name, then that is your legal name. > > What do you do when "the man formerly known as Prince" shows up in an office and declares himself to be known by a non-alphanumeric, indeed non-Unicode symbol, which he draws on a piece of paper? I suspect that the U.K. National Health Service would simply ask him to stand in the line designated for such folks -- in which case he'd likely expire before being checked in to see the doctor, but afterwords the documentation of this would be impecable :-) Jonathan | ||||||
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