<authorinformation>
The <authorinformation> element contains detailed information
about the author or authoring organization.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
+ topic/author xnal-d/authorinformation
Example
<authorinformation>
<personinfo>
<namedetails><personname>
<firstname>Derek</firstname>
<middlename>L.</middlename>
<lastname>Singleton</lastname>
<generationidentifier>Jr.</generationidentifier>
<otherinfo>noted psychologist</otherinfo>
</personname></namedetails>
<addressdetails>
<thoroughfare>123 Yellow Brick Road</thoroughfare>
<locality>Emerald City</locality>
<administrativearea>Kansas</administrativearea>
<country>USA</country>
</addressdetails>
<contactnumbers><contactnumber>123-555-4678</contactnumber></contactnumbers>
<emailaddresses><emailaddress>wizard@example.org</emailaddress></emailaddresses>
</personinfo>
</authorinformation>Attributes
The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group, Link relationship attribute group (with a narrowed definition for @type, given below), and @keyref.
- @type
- Describes the target of a reference. See The @type attribute for detailed information on supported values
and processing implications. Note that this differs from the @type
attribute on many other DITA elements.
Beginning with DITA 1.2, values in this attribute
are not limited to a small number of choices; the
following values were used in DITA 1.0 and DITA
1.1, and are also recognized for the
<author> element (and its
specializations):
- creator
- The primary or original author of the content.
- contributor
- An additional author who is not primary.
- -dita-use-conref-target
- See Using the -dita-use-conref-target value for more information.