Description
The Author element holds information about the author of the document in which it occurs; it is meta-information about the current document or document section, not a reference to the author of an external document.
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 Author in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to hold Author, AuthorBlurb, and Affiliation.
Parents
These elements contain Author: Application, ArtHeader, Attribution, AuthorGroup, BiblioEntry, BiblioMisc, BiblioMixed, BiblioMSet, BiblioSet, BookBiblio, BookInfo, BridgeHead, Citation, CiteTitle, Comment, DocInfo, Emphasis, entry, ForeignPhrase, GlossSee, GlossSeeAlso, GlossTerm, LineAnnotation, Link, LiteralLayout, LoTentry, Member, MsgAud, ObjectInfo, OLink, Para, Phrase, Primary, PrimaryIE, ProductName, ProgramListing, Quote, RefEntryTitle, RefPurpose, RefSect1Info, RefSect2Info, RefSect3Info, RefSynopsisDivInfo, Screen, ScreenInfo, Secondary, SecondaryIE, Sect1Info, Sect2Info, Sect3Info, Sect4Info, Sect5Info, SectionInfo, See, SeeAlso, SeeAlsoIE, SeeIE, Seg, SegTitle, SeriesInfo, SetInfo, SimPara, Subtitle, Synopsis, Term, Tertiary, TertiaryIE, Title, TitleAbbrev, ToCback, ToCentry, ToCfront, ULink.
Children
The following elements occur in Author: Affiliation, AuthorBlurb, Contrib, FirstName, Honorific, Lineage, OtherName, Surname.
In some contexts, the following elements are allowed anywhere: BeginPage, IndexTerm.
