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 461. 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.
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