author — The name of an individual author
The author element holds information about the author of the document in which it occurs; it is meta-information about the current document or document section, not a reference to the author of an external document.
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.
These elements contain author: authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, bridgehead, caption (db.html.caption), citation, citetitle, classsynopsisinfo, emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcsynopsisinfo, glosssee,
glossseealso, glossterm, html:button, html:label, html:legend, info (db.info),
info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), info (db.titleonlyreq.info), info (db.titlereq.info), link, literallayout, member, olink, orgdiv, para, phrase (db.phrase), primary, primaryie, programlisting, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle, refname, refpurpose, revision, screen, secondary, secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocentry.
The following elements occur in author: address, affiliation, contrib, email, orgdiv, orgname,
personblurb, personname, uri.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<info>
<title>Example author</title>
<author>
<personname>
<honorific>Mr</honorific>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
<surname>Walsh</surname>
<othername role='mi'>D</othername>
</personname>
<affiliation>
<shortaffil>ATI</shortaffil>
<jobtitle>Senior Application Analyst</jobtitle>
<orgname>ArborText, Inc.</orgname>
<orgdiv>Application Developement</orgdiv>
</affiliation>
</author>
</info>
<para>…</para>
</article>