The <author> metadata element contains the name of the topic's author.
<prolog> <author type="creator">Jane Roe</author> <author type="contributor">John Doe</author> </prolog>
Doctype | Content model |
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ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept | ( text data or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number) |
map, bookmap | ( text data or keyword or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown) (any number) |
Doctype | Parents |
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ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference | prolog |
bookmap | topicmeta, bookmeta |
map | topicmeta |
- topic/author
Name | Description | Data Type | Default Value | Required? |
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href | A hyperlink to an external Web page (URL) or other non-DITA resource,
or to another DITA topic in the same file or in another file. The format attribute
identifies the format of the target. Non-DITA targets use standard URL syntax.
DITA topics are targetted as follows:Target elsewhere in the same file: href="#topicid" First topic in different file: href="filename.dita" Specific topic in different file: href="filename.dita#topicid" If the URL contains an ampersand character, the ampersand symbol (&) should be used to indicate that character |
CDATA | #IMPLIED | No |
type | Indicates the primary author of the content. Note that this differs from the type
attribute on many other DITA elements. Allowable values are:
|
(creator | contributor | -dita-use-conref-target) | #IMPLIED | No |
%univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;) | A set of related attributes, described at %univ-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) | A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; | parameter entity | PE not applicable | Not applicable |
class, keyref | Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes |
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OASIS DITA Language Specification v1.1 -- Committee Draft 02, 8 May 2007
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