othercredit

othercredit — A person or entity, other than an author or editor, credited in a document.

Synopsis

othercredit ::=

One of:
- Sequence of:
  - personname
  - Zero or more of:
- Sequence of:
  - orgname
  - Zero or more of:

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

Exactly one of:
- class (enumeration)
  - “copyeditor”
  - “graphicdesigner”
  - “productioneditor”
  - “technicaleditor”
  - “translator”
  - “indexer”
  - “proofreader”
  - “coverdesigner”
  - “interiordesigner”
  - “illustrator”
  - “reviewer”
  - “typesetter”
  - “conversion”
- All of:
  - class (enumeration)
    - “other”
  - otherclass (NMTOKEN)

Required attributes are shown in bold.

Description

DocBook allows you to directly identify authors and editors. The othercredit element provides a mechanism for identifying other individuals—for example, contributors or production editors—in a similar context.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

class

Identifies the nature of the contributor

Enumerated values:
“copyeditor”	A copy editor
“graphicdesigner”	A graphic designer
“productioneditor”	A production editor
“technicaleditor”	A technical editor
“translator”	A translator
“indexer”	An indexer
“proofreader”	A proof-reader
“coverdesigner”	A cover designer
“interiordesigner”	An interior designer
“illustrator”	An illustrator
“reviewer”	A reviewer
“typesetter”	A typesetter
“conversion”	A converter (a persons responsible for conversion, not an application)

otherclass

Identifies the nature of the non-standard contribution

Parents

These elements contain othercredit: authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, info (db.info), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), merge.

Children

The following elements occur in othercredit: address, affiliation, contrib, email, orgdiv, orgname, personblurb, personname, uri.

Examples

 1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
   |<info>
   |  <title>Example othercredit</title>
   |  <author>
 5 |    <personname>
   |      <firstname>Norman</firstname>
   |      <surname>Walsh</surname>
   |    </personname>
   |  </author>
10 |  <othercredit>
   |    <personname>
   |      <firstname>John</firstname>
   |      <surname>Doe</surname>
   |    </personname>
15 |    <contrib>Extensive review and rough drafts of Section 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
   |    </contrib>
   |  </othercredit>
   |  <biblioid>5</biblioid>
   |</info>
20 | 
   |<para>…</para>
   | 
   |</article>