personname — The personal name of an individual
The personname identifies the personal name
of an individual.
These elements contain personname: address, attribution, author, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, collab, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, othercredit, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in personname: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, firstname, honorific, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, lineage, link, olink, othername, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, surname, xref.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example personname</title> <para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like <personname><firstname>Albert</firstname><surname>Einstein</surname></personname> can be marked-up inline.</para> </article>
Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like Albert Einstein can be marked-up inline.