V5.0person

person — A person and associated metadata.

Synopsis

person ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional 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.

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain person: attribution, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, collab, contrib, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, enumitemdescription, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), 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, synopsisinfo, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.

Children

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

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example person</title>
  | 
  |<para>The principle author of this document is
5 |<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.