authorgroup

$Revision: 1.3 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:00 $

authorgroup — Wrapper for author information when a document has multiple authors or collabarators

Synopsis

Content Model

authorgroup ::=
((author|editor|collab|corpauthor|corpcredit|othercredit)+)

Attributes

Common attributes

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Content Model

authorgroup ::=

One or more of:

DocBook NG “Bourbon” Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The AuthorGroup element is a wrapper around multiple authors or other collaborators.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes given very special treatment, especially on title pages or other displayed areas. Sometimes suppressed.

Parents

These elements contain authorgroup: appendixinfo, articleinfo, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, bookinfo, chapterinfo, glossaryinfo, indexinfo, objectinfo, partinfo, prefaceinfo, refentryinfo, referenceinfo, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdivinfo, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo.

Children

The following elements occur in authorgroup: author, collab, corpauthor, corpcredit, editor, othercredit.

Examples

The example below demonstrates AuthorGroup and many of the elements of Author.

<!DOCTYPE authorgroup PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<authorgroup>
  <author>
    <honorific>Dr.</honorific>
    <firstname>Lois</firstname>
    <surname>Common-Demoninator</surname>
    <affiliation>
      <shortaffil>Director, M. Behn School of Coop. Eng.</shortaffil>
      <jobtitle>Director of Cooperative Efforts</jobtitle>
      <orgname>The Marguerite Behn International School of
               Cooperative Engineering</orgname>
    </affiliation>
  </author>

  <editor>
    <firstname>Peter</firstname>
    <surname>Parker</surname>
    <lineage>Sr.</lineage>
    <othername>Spiderman</othername>
    <authorblurb>
      <para>
      Peter's a super hero in his spare time.
      </para>
    </authorblurb>
  </editor>
</authorgroup>

For additional examples, see also bibliography, bookinfo, collab.


authorblurb		authorinitials