<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.
See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.
- topic/author
<prolog>
<author type="creator">Jane</author>
<author type="contributor">John</author>
</prolog>
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
@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):