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.