author

author — The name of an individual author

Synopsis

Content Model

author ::=

One of:
- Sequence of:
  - personname
  - Zero or more of:
    address
    affiliation
    contrib
    email
    personblurb
- Sequence of:
  - orgname
  - Zero or more of:
    address
    affiliation
    contrib
    email
    orgdiv

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The Author element holds information about the author of the document in which it occurs; it is meta-information about the current document or document section, not a reference to the author of an external document.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Parents

These elements contain author: authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, revision, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

The following elements occur in author: address, affiliation, contrib, email, orgdiv, orgname, personblurb, personname.

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<info>
  <title>Example author</title>

  <author>
    <personname>
      <honorific>Mr</honorific>
      <firstname>Norman</firstname>
      <surname>Walsh</surname>
      <othername role='mi'>D</othername>
    </personname>
    <affiliation>
      <shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil>
      <jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle>
      <orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname>
      <orgdiv>Application Developement</orgdiv>
    </affiliation>
  </author>
</info>

<para>…</para>

</article>

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 1.4 $ published $Date: 2005/07/07 16:40:23 $.


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