personname

personname — The personal name of an individual.

Synopsis

personname ::=

Attributes

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

Description

The personname identifies the personal name of an individual.

Processing expectations

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

Parents

These elements contain personname: attribution, author, bibliomixed, bibliomset, caption (db.html.caption), citetitle, editor, emphasis, entry, html:button, html:label, html:legend, link (db.link), literallayout, othercredit, para, phrase (db.phrase), programlisting, quote, rddl:resource, subtitle, summary, td, term, th, title, titleabbrev.

Children

The following elements occur in personname: text, firstname, givenname, honorific, inlinemediaobject, lineage, othername, phrase (db._phrase), replaceable, subscript, superscript, surname.

See Also

Related elements: author, authorgroup, editor, othercredit, personblurb.

Examples

1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  |<title>Example personname</title>
  | 
  |<para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like
5 |<personname><firstname>Albert</firstname><surname>Einstein</surname></personname>
  |can be marked-up inline.</para>
  | 
  |</article>

Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like Albert Einstein can be marked-up inline.