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Originally Posted by llasram
What you're proposing is that the @role="aut" is "Cannutius" and @role="att" is "Cicero". But if you do the same thing for Huckleberry Finn then you should have your @role="aut" be "Samuel Clemens" and your @rol="att" be "Mark Twain".
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Yes, from the specification that's what I think should be done in the first case. The difference is Cicero and Cannutius are (I assume[*]) two different people, while Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens are the same single person (just as "Twain, Mark", in a opf:file-as attribute, is the same person).
So, I guess having two different dc:creator elements for Cicero and Cannutius is all right, but having two for Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens is not practical, there's no way of knowing/marking they are the same person.
For the case of several opf:role for a single author, the reading systems could "merge" multiple dc:creator (each one with a single opf:role) if they have the same opf:file-as... I wonder if any system does this or if any developer will think of this.
[*] It would be different if we discover, instead, that the person we know as Cicero was actually named Cannutius.