Problem: we encounter references to people composed of several words, e. g. Ath. 15.56:
Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Αἰτωλὸς ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος
In the working copy the text is marked like this:
<name type="person">Ἀλέξανδρος</name> ὁ <name type="person">Αἰτωλὸς</name> ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος
First, the markup should be corrected:
<name type="person">Ἀλέξανδρος</name> ὁ <name type="person">Αἰτωλὸς</name> ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος
Next, we could imagine someone needing to use the scholarly edition to locate all the references to Aetolians, and to all the Alexanders; or to all the ethnic names and all personal names. But we could also imagine someone wanting to locate, or do something, with the tragedian Alexander-from-Aetolia.
One possible solution is nested markup:
<name type="person-specific"><name type="person">Ἀλέξανδρος</name> ὁ <name type="person">Αἰτωλὸς</name></name> ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος
Another is to use persName instead of name for the top layer (slightly better readable and findable in itself, but complicating things for the machines):
<persName type="person-specific"><name type="person">Ἀλέξανδρος</name> ὁ <name type="person">Αἰτωλὸς</name></persName> ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος
What would fit better into the edition we're building?
And should we do something about ὁ τραγῳδοδιδάσκαλος, which is also part of the reference here?