<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.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

- topic/author

Example

This section is non-normative.

<prolog>
  <author type="creator">Jane</author>
  <author type="contributor">John</author>
</prolog>

Content model

(Text | <data> | <data-about> | <foreign> | <unknown> | <keyword> | <term> | <text>)*

Contained by

<prolog>

Zero or more of the following
  • Text
  • <data>
  • <data-about>
  • <foreign>
  • <keyword>
  • <term>
  • <text>
  • <unknown>

Contained by

  • <prolog>

Inheritance

- topic/author

The <author> element is a base element type. It is defined in the topic module.

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.
@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.