personname
personname — The personal name of an individual.
Synopsis
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- One of:
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.
Parents
These elements contain personname: attribution, author, bibliomixed, bibliomset, caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, editor, emphasis, entry, link, literallayout, orgdiv, othercredit, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, subtitle, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev.
Children
The following elements occur in personname: text, firstname, givenname, honorific, inlinemediaobject, lineage, othername, phrase (db._phrase), replaceable, subscript, superscript, surname.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example personname</title>
<para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like
<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.