[tcs-lc] For completeness - handling of ex authors

[Roger Hyam]

Raised as issue in tracker number 034 - so we don't forget about it.

Sally Hinchcliffe wrote:

>While we're raising hopefully minor issues - I mentioned this to 
>Roger (and I think we discussed it last week) and I know this is in 
>his 'do' list but I thought I'd get it out on to the list anyway
>
>At the moment 'ex' authors are handled a bit clumsily - basically in 
>'Reckitt ex Coleman' the annotation suggests that the 'ex' should be 
>atomised in the same way as Messrs Reckitt and Coleman so you end up 
>with three agent names: Reckitt, Coleman and 'ex'. Everyone who's 
>seen this has said 'yuck'. Talking it over with Roger we thought this 
>could be handled with either an attribute or an extra element (there 
>seems to be a design backlash against attributes these days for some 
>reason)
>
>This would have to be optional so if it went into a later version it 
>wouldn't break backwards compatibility but I think if it could make 
>it into the final voting version it would aid acceptance of the 
>schema
>
>Sally
>*** Sally Hinchcliffe
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