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Document Information
Title NISO Z39.96-201x, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite
File Name z39-96-dsftu-final.pdf State Final
Date Added 2011-03-30 07:39:41 Revision Number 0
Submitter Name Cynthia Hodgson Size 2MB
Comment Information
Summary
Add superscript to data model for given-names and surname
 State (Disposition) New (Unresolved)
Date Added 2011-09-28 16:30:08 Last Updated 2011-09-28 16:30:08
Submitter Name Lynn Murdock Assigned To Unassigned
Company Name PLoS Response None
Interest Category Category N/A
Origin Public Review Section, Page, Line
Item Item Description
Submitter Comment
We have encountered authors who have superscript letters (thus far, only the letter "a") in their given names. We currently cannot accommodate this in the XML, since can't have children. We have not yet encountered this issue in , but since its occurrence may be possible, it might be good to extend the same logic to as to .

This is apparently an abbreviation for Maria. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator, the last section called Similar Conventions:
Spanish uses the indicator letters in some abbreviations, such as Vº Bº for visto bueno ("approved"); and Mª for Maria, a Spanish name frequently used in compounds like José Mª.

Supporting File: journal.pone.0016100.pdf
Submitter Proposed Solution
Add as an optional child element of both and , like so:


Munoz-Fernandez
Ma Angeles