author
author — The name of an individual author.
Description
The author element holds information about the
author of a document. When inside one of the bibliographic elements,
author refers to the author of the document described
by that element. Otherwise, it refers to the author of the current
document or document section.
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, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), link, literallayout, member, merge, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, 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, uri.
See Also
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>