author — The name of an individual author
author ::=
((personname
, (address
|
affiliation
| contrib
|
email
| personblurb
|
uri
)*) | (orgname
,
(address
| affiliation
|
contrib
| email
|
orgdiv
| uri
)*))
The author
element holds information about the
author of a document. When inside one of the bibliographic elements,
author
refers to the author of the document described
by that element. Otherwise, it refers to the author of the current
document or document section.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <info> <title>Example author</title> <author> <personname> <honorific>Mr</honorific> <firstname>Norman</firstname> <surname>Walsh</surname> <othername role='mi'>D</othername> </personname> <affiliation> <shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil> <jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle> <orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname> <orgdiv>Application Development</orgdiv> </affiliation> </author> </info> <para>…</para> </article>