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Version: DocBook V4.5

othercredit

othercredit — A person or entity, other than an author or editor, credited in a document

Synopsis​

Content Model​

othercredit ::=
((personname|
  (honorific|firstname|surname|lineage|othername|affiliation|
   authorblurb|contrib)+),
 (personblurb|email|address)*)

Attributes​

Common attributes

Name

Type

Default

class

Enumeration:

copyeditor

graphicdesigner

other

productioneditor

technicaleditor

translator

None

Description​

DocBook allows you to directly identify Authors and Editors. OtherCredit provides a mechanism for identifying other individuals, for example, contributors or production editors, in a similar context.

Processing expectations​

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Future Changes​

AuthorBlurb and Affiliation will be removed from the inline content of OtherCredit in DocBook V4.0. A new wrapper element will be created to hold OtherCredit, AuthorBlurb, and Affiliation.

Parents​

These elements contain othercredit: appendixinfo, application, articleinfo, attribution, authorgroup, biblioentry, bibliographyinfo, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, biblioset, blockinfo, bookinfo, bridgehead, chapterinfo, citation, citetitle, emphasis, entry, firstterm, foreignphrase, glossaryinfo, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm, indexinfo, lineannotation, link, literallayout, lotentry, member, msgaud, objectinfo, olink, para, partinfo, phrase, prefaceinfo, primary, primaryie, productname, programlisting, quote, refentryinfo, refentrytitle, referenceinfo, refpurpose, refsect1info, refsect2info, refsect3info, refsectioninfo, refsynopsisdivinfo, remark, screen, screeninfo, secondary, secondaryie, sect1info, sect2info, sect3info, sect4info, sect5info, sectioninfo, see, seealso, seealsoie, seeie, seg, segtitle, setindexinfo, setinfo, sidebarinfo, simpara, subtitle, synopsis, td, term, termdef, tertiary, tertiaryie, th, title, titleabbrev, tocback, tocentry, tocfront, ulink.

Children​

The following elements occur in othercredit: address, affiliation, authorblurb, contrib, email, firstname, honorific, lineage, othername, personblurb, personname, surname.

See Also​

author, authorblurb, authorgroup, collab, collabname, contrib, corpauthor, editor, personblurb, personname.

Examples​

<!DOCTYPE articleinfo PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<articleinfo>
  <title>Something Snappy</title>
  <author>
    <firstname>Norman</firstname>
    <surname>Walsh</surname>
  </author>
  <othercredit>
    <firstname>John</firstname>
    <surname>Doe</surname>
    <contrib>Extensive review and rough drafts of Section 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
      </contrib>
  </othercredit>
  <pubsnumber>5</pubsnumber>
</articleinfo>