personname

personname — The personal name of an individual.

Synopsis

personname ::=

One of:
- Zero or more of:
  - text
  - Graphic inlines
    inlinemediaobject
  - Indexing inlines
    indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
  - Linking inlines
    anchor
    biblioref
    link
    olink
    xref
  - Ubiquitous inlines
    abbrev
    acronym
    alt
    anchor
    biblioref
    coref
    date
    emphasis (db._emphasis)
    firstterm (db._firstterm)
    footnote
    footnoteref
    foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase)
    glossterm (db._glossterm)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.singular)
    indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange)
    inlinemediaobject
    link
    olink
    phrase (db._phrase)
    quote (db._quote)
    remark
    subscript
    superscript
    trademark
    wordasword
    xref
- One or more of:
- One or more of:

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

None.

Description

The personname identifies the personal name of an individual.

Processing expectations

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

Attributes

Common linking attributes.

any attribute: Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

Parents

These elements contain personname: address, attribution, author, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, citation, citetitle, collab, contrib, editor, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db.glossterm), inlinestagedir, line, link, literallayout, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, orgdiv, othercredit, para, person, phrase (db.phrase), primary, quote (db.quote), remark, secondary, see, seealso, simpara, subtitle, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev.

Children

The following elements occur in personname: text, abbrev, acronym, alt, anchor, biblioref, coref, date, emphasis (db._emphasis), firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), footnote, footnoteref, foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), givenname, glossterm (db._glossterm), honorific, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, lineage, link, olink, othername, phrase (db._phrase), quote (db._quote), remark, subscript, superscript, surname, trademark, wordasword, xref.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example personname</title>
  | 
  |<para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like
5 |<personname><firstname>Albert</firstname><surname>Einstein</surname></personname>
  |can be marked-up inline.</para>
  | 
  |</article>

Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like Albert Einstein can be marked-up inline.