person

person — A person and associated metadata.

Synopsis

Sequence of:
- personname
- Zero or more of:

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

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

This element occurs in 56 elements.

Children

The following elements occur in person: address, affiliation, email, personblurb, personname, uri.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example person</title>
    
  4 <para>The principle author of this document is
    <person><personname><firstname>Norman</firstname>
  6 <surname>Walsh</surname></personname><email>ndw@nwalsh.com</email>
    </person>.</para>
  8 
    </article>

The principle author of this document is Norman Walsh.


partintro		personblurb