author

$Revision: 1.4 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:00 $

author — The name of an individual author

Synopsis

Content Model

author ::=
((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation|
  authorblurb)+)

Attributes

Common 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: articleinfo, authorgroup, bibliomixed, bibliomset, objectinfo, sectioninfo, subtitle, title, titleabbrev.

Children

The following elements occur in author: affiliation, authorblurb, firstname, honorific, lineage, othername, surname.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE author PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<author>
  <honorific>Mr</honorific>
  <firstname>Norman</firstname>
  <surname>Walsh</surname>
  <othername role='mi'>D</othername>
  <affiliation>
    <shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil>
    <jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle>
    <orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname>
    <orgdiv>Application Developement</orgdiv>
  </affiliation>
</author>

For additional examples, see also article, authorgroup, bibliography, othercredit.

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