Crazy because so many of my ideas are, and I find it best to
   prepare an insanity defense in advance. :)

Abusive because a phone number is not really a 'number'
   in the sense intended by <num>, i.e. a mathematical
   number: it is rather an address string that happens
   by convention in most cases to consist of a sequence of
   digits, or to be reducible to same. As a reductio ad absurdum,
   consider that an entire text *could* be reduced to a string
   of 0s and 1s, and captured in a single <num> tag.... Doing
   so doesn't make the text a number.

   Still, I think the language of the guidelines is ambiguous
   enough to make the usage legal. And if you @type it
   distinctively, you can always change it to something
   more appropriate later on.

pfs

On Fri, 27 May 2011, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> That seems nice to me. Why do you think it might be crazy or abusive?
>
> Best regards, Matthias
>
> On 25.05.2011 23:42, Paul F. Schaffner wrote:
>> If content to normalize phone numbers to strict numeric strings (or
>> not normalize at all), couldn't one resort to ... well, <num>? Or is
>>
>>   <author>
>>     <name>Paul Schaffner</name>
>>     <num type="phone" value="017346471824">(01) 734 647-1824</num>
>>   </author>
>>
>> an egregious abuse? Or merely crazy?
>>
>> pfs
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 25 May 2011, Matthias Einbrodt wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> maybe it's just late and I have overlooked it, but is there a
>>> possibility to encode phone/fax numbers within <author> and
>>> <affiliation>?
>>>
>>> Since <email> is available within these two elements shouldn't it be
>>> possible to also have something like <phone> and <fax>?
>>>
>>> Best regards, Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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