Re: [docbook] author meta-information

Hi

On Mon 2004-06-21 Pupeno wrote:
> How can I put some methainformation about the author of a docbook.

Here's one way to do it:

<book status="draft">
  <bookinfo>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword>foo</keyword>
      <keyword>bar</keyword>
    </keywordset>
    <title>The Etymology of Foo and Bar</title>
    <author>
      <firstname>George</firstname>
      <surname>Costanza</surname>
      <email>george example com</email>
    </author>

> For instance, e-mail address... do I have to use <affiliation> for
> e-mail address ?

You can place it directly inside element address:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/email.html

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/address.html

address ::=
(#PCDATA|personname|honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|
 affiliation|authorblurb|contrib|street|pob|postcode|city|state|
 country|phone|fax|email|otheraddr)*


You can also place it directly inside lots of other elements, it's an
inline element:

http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/email.html

Parents

These elements contain email: action, address, application,
attribution, author, bibliomisc, bridgehead, citation, citetitle,
classsynopsisinfo, code, command, computeroutput, database, editor,
emphasis, entry, filename, firstterm, foreignphrase, funcparams,
funcsynopsisinfo, function, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm,
hardware, interfacename, keycap, lineannotation, link, literal,
literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, olink, option, optional,
othercredit, para, parameter, phrase, primary, primaryie, productname,
programlisting, property, quote, refdescriptor, refentrytitle,
refname, refpurpose, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary,
secondaryie, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, simpara,
subtitle, synopsis, systemitem, td, term, tertiary, tertiaryie, th,
title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, trademark, ulink,
userinput.

> What about web page, im address and so on ?

I don't think such elements exist (didn't check thoroughly though). I
would find a "home page URL" element a useful addition to the content
model of element address, author, (etc); eg element "homepage", or
something like

  <website type="private">...
                 work

And perhaps people also would find <im type="icq">12345... useful;

you could write RFEs for both features [1].

Tobi

[1]

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse

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