V5.0person
person — A person and associated metadata.
Description
A person associates a personal name with other
information about an individual.
Processing expectations
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context.
Parents
These elements contain person: attribution, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, collab, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote (db.quote), refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, remark, 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 person: address, affiliation, email, personblurb, personname, uri.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example person</title>
<para>The principle author of this document is
<person><personname><firstname>Norman</firstname>
<surname>Walsh</surname></personname><email>ndw@nwalsh.com</email>
</person>.</para>
</article>
The principle author of this document is Norman Walsh.