author
Synopsis
Content Model
author ::= ((honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation| authorblurb|contrib)+)
Attributes
Parameter Entities
The following parameter entities contain author:
| Parameter Entities | ||
| %bibliocomponent.mix; | %docinfo.char.class; | %ndxterm.char.mix; |
| %para.char.mix; | %refinline.char.mix; | %tbl.entry.mdl; |
| %title.char.mix; | ||
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.
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Future Changes
AuthorBlurb and Affiliation will be removed from the inline content of Author in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to hold Author, AuthorBlurb, and Affiliation.
Parents
These elements contain author: appendixinfo, application, articleinfo, attribution, authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bookinfo, bridgehead, chapterinfo, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, foreignphrase, glossaryinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, indexinfo, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, objectinfo, olink, para, partinfo, phrase, prefaceinfo, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentryinfo, refentrytitle, referenceinfo, refpurpose, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsynopsisdivinfo, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.
Children
The following elements occur in author: affiliation, authorblurb, contrib, 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 ackno, article, authorgroup, bibliography, biblioset, book, bookinfo, othercredit .