othercredit

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

Synopsis

othercredit ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes:

  • Exactly one of:
    • class (enumeration)
      • “copyeditor”
      • “graphicdesigner”
      • “other”
      • “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.

class

Identifies the nature of the contributor

Enumerated values:
“copyeditor”

A copy editor

“graphicdesigner”

A graphic designer

“other”

Some other contributor

“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).

Children

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

Examples

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

<para>…</para>

</article>
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