othercredit

$Revision: 1.3 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:20 $

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

Synopsis

Content Model

othercredit ::=
((personname|
  (honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation|
   authorblurb|contrib)+),
 (personblurb|email|address)*)

Attributes

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

class
Enumeration:
copyeditor
graphicdesigner
other
productioneditor
technicaleditor
translator
None

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Content Model

othercredit ::=

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Additional attributes: (Required attributes, if any, are bold)

  • class (enumeration)
    • “copyeditor”
    • “graphicdesigner”
    • “other”
    • “productioneditor”
    • “technicaleditor”
    • “translator”

Description

DocBook allows you to directly identify Authors and Editors. OtherCredit 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.

Future Changes

AuthorBlurb and Affiliation will be removed from the inline content of OtherCredit in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to hold OtherCredit, AuthorBlurb, and Affiliation.

Children

The following elements occur in othercredit: address, affiliation, authorblurb, contrib, email, firstname, honorific, lineage, othername, personblurb, personname, surname.

See Also

author, authorblurb, authorgroup, collab, collabname, contrib, corpauthor, editor, personblurb, personname.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE articleinfo PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<articleinfo>
  <title>Something Snappy</title>
  <author>
    <firstname>Norman</firstname>
    <surname>Walsh</surname>
  </author>
  <othercredit>
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <surname>Doe</surname>
    <contrib>Extensive review and rough drafts of Section 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
      </contrib>
  </othercredit>
  <pubsnumber>5</pubsnumber>
</articleinfo>