On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:23:55PM -0800,
 Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 29 lines which said:

> xml:lang isn't enough information to sort out given name and family
> name.

Yes! In many countries, the order changed. In France, one century ago
"Family-name Given-name" was common in official papers but is now
deprecated. In Algeria, a former french colony, the two usages still
prevail ("Matoub Lounes" or "Lounes Matoub"?)

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