personname
personname — The personal name of an individual.
Synopsis
- One of:
- Zero or more of:
- text
phrase (db._phrase)replaceable- Graphic inlines
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- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
- One or more of:
Description
The personname identifies the personal name of
an individual.
Processing expectations
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on
context.
Parents
These elements contain personname: address, attribution, author, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, collab, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, othercredit, para, person, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, 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 personname: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, firstname, honorific, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, lineage, link, olink, othername, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, surname, xref.
Examples
1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
2 <title>Example personname</title>
4 <para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like
<personname><firstname>Albert</firstname><surname>Einstein</surname></personname>
6 can be marked-up inline.</para>
8 </article>
Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like
Albert Einstein
can be marked-up inline.
