personname

personname — The personal name of an individual.

Synopsis

personname ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

No additional attributes.

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 attributes and 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.

See Also

Related elements: author, authorgroup, collab, contrib, editor, othercredit, personblurb.

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.