| DocBook: The Definitive Guide 2.0.17 (Alpha)

# bookinfo

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bookinfo — Meta-information for a Book

## Synopsis

### Content Model

    bookinfo ::=
    ((graphic|mediaobject|legalnotice|modespec|subjectset|keywordset|
      itermset|abbrev|abstract|address|artpagenums|author|authorgroup|
      authorinitials|bibliomisc|biblioset|collab|confgroup|
      contractnum|contractsponsor|copyright|corpauthor|corpname|
      corpcredit|date|edition|editor|invpartnumber|isbn|issn|issuenum|
      orgname|biblioid|citebiblioid|bibliosource|bibliorelation|
      bibliocoverage|othercredit|pagenums|printhistory|productname|
      productnumber|pubdate|publisher|publishername|pubsnumber|
      releaseinfo|revhistory|seriesvolnums|subtitle|title|titleabbrev|
      volumenum|citetitle|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|
      lineage|othername|affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|indexterm)+)

### Attributes

Common attributes

Name | Type | Default
contents | IDREFS | None

## Description

Meta-information for a Book.

### Processing expectations

Suppressed. Many of the elements in this wrapper may be used in presentation, but they are not generally printed as part of the formatting of the wrapper. It merely serves to identify where they occur.

### Future Changes

`AuthorBlurb` and `Affiliation` will be removed from the inline content of `BookInfo` in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to associate this information with authors, editors, and other contributors.

`BookBiblio` will be discarded.

### Future Changes

The `contents` attribute will be removed.

### Parents

These elements contain bookinfo: `book`.

### Children

The following elements occur in bookinfo: `abbrev`, `abstract`, `address`, `affiliation`, `artpagenums`, `author`, `authorblurb`, `authorgroup`, `authorinitials`, `bibliocoverage`, `biblioid`, `bibliomisc`, `bibliorelation`, `biblioset`, `bibliosource`, `citebiblioid`, `citetitle`, `collab`, `confgroup`, `contractnum`, `contractsponsor`, `contrib`, `copyright`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `corpname`, `date`, `edition`, `editor`, `firstname`, `graphic`, `honorific`, `indexterm`, `invpartnumber`, `isbn`, `issn`, `issuenum`, `itermset`, `keywordset`, `legalnotice`, `lineage`, `mediaobject`, `modespec`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `othername`, `pagenums`, `personname`, `printhistory`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `pubdate`, `publisher`, `publishername`, `pubsnumber`, `releaseinfo`, `revhistory`, `seriesvolnums`, `subjectset`, `subtitle`, `surname`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `volumenum`.

## Attributes

contents

  `Contents`, if specified, should contain a list of all the IDs of the chapter-level subelements of the `Book`, in their natural order.

## See Also

`appendixinfo`, `articleinfo`, `bibliographyinfo`, `blockinfo`, `chapterinfo`, `glossaryinfo`, `indexinfo`, `objectinfo`, `prefaceinfo`, `refsynopsisdivinfo`, `screeninfo`, `sect1info`, `sect2info`, `sect3info`, `sect4info`, `sect5info`, `sectioninfo`, `setinfo`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE bookinfo PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <bookinfo>
      <title>User's Guide for the DocBook DTD</title>
      <authorgroup>
        <author><firstname>Terry</firstname><surname>Allen</surname></author>
        <author><firstname>Eve</firstname><surname>Maler</surname>
          <affiliation><orgname>Arbortext, Inc.</orgname></affiliation>
        </author>
        <author><firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
          <affiliation><orgname>Arbortext, Inc.</orgname></affiliation>
        </author>
      </authorgroup>
      <edition>User's Guide version 1.0 for DocBook V3.0</edition>
      <pubdate>1997</pubdate>
      <copyright><year>1992</year>
        <year>1993</year>
        <year>1994</year>
        <year>1995</year>
        <year>1996</year>
        <year>1997</year>
    <holder>Arbortext, Inc.</holder>
    <holder>HaL Computer Systems, Inc.</holder>
    <holder>Fujitsu Software Corp.</holder>
    <holder>O'Reilly &amp; Associates, Inc.</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
    <para>Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute
    the DocBook DTD and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and
    without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above
    copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies.</para>
    </legalnotice>

    <legalnotice>
    <para>The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of
    this DTD for any purpose. It is provided
    <quote>as is</quote> without expressed
    or implied warranty.  If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for
    declaring and referencing additional general entities and declaring additional
    notations, identify your DTD as a variant of DocBook.</para>
    </legalnotice>

    </bookinfo>

For additional examples, see also `book`, `collab`.

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