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# author

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author — The name of an individual author

## Synopsis

### Content Model

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

### Attributes

Common attributes

## 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.

### Parents

These elements contain author: `appendixinfo`, `application`, `articleinfo`, `attribution`, `authorgroup`, `biblioentry`, `bibliographyinfo`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliomixed`, `bibliomset`, `biblioset`, `blockinfo`, `bookinfo`, `bridgehead`, `chapterinfo`, `citation`, `citetitle`, `emphasis`, `entry`, `firstterm`, `foreignphrase`, `glossaryinfo`, `glosssee`, `glossseealso`, `glossterm`, `indexinfo`, `lineannotation`, `link`, `literallayout`, `lotentry`, `member`, `msgaud`, `objectinfo`, `olink`, `para`, `partinfo`, `phrase`, `prefaceinfo`, `primary`, `primaryie`, `productname`, `programlisting`, `quote`, `refentryinfo`, `refentrytitle`, `referenceinfo`, `refpurpose`, `refsect1info`, `refsect2info`, `refsect3info`, `refsectioninfo`, `refsynopsisdivinfo`, `remark`, `revision`, `screen`, `screeninfo`, `secondary`, `secondaryie`, `sect1info`, `sect2info`, `sect3info`, `sect4info`, `sect5info`, `sectioninfo`, `see`, `seealso`, `seealsoie`, `seeie`, `seg`, `segtitle`, `setindexinfo`, `setinfo`, `sidebarinfo`, `simpara`, `subtitle`, `synopsis`, `td`, `term`, `termdef`, `tertiary`, `tertiaryie`, `th`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `tocback`, `tocentry`, `tocfront`, `ulink`.

### Children

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

## See Also

`authorblurb`, `authorgroup`, `collab`, `collabname`, `contrib`, `corpauthor`, `editor`, `othercredit`, `personblurb`, `personname`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE author PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <author>
      <honorific>Mr</honorific>
      <firstname>Norman</firstname>
      <surname>Walsh</surname>
      <othername role='mi'>D</othername>
      <affiliation>
        <shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil>
        <jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle>
        <orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname>
        <orgdiv>Application Developement</orgdiv>
      </affiliation>
    </author>

For additional examples, see also `ackno`, `article`, `authorgroup`, `bibliography`, `biblioset`, `book`, `bookinfo`, `othercredit`.

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