author
The author metadata element contains the name of the topic's author.
The author is usually the person, organization, or application that created the content. This element is equivalent to the Creator element in Dublin Core.
Content models
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
Inheritance
- topic/author
Example 135. Example
<prolog>
<author type="creator">Jane</author>
<author type="contributor">John</author>
</prolog>
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
Parent topic