author

The <author> metadata element contains the name of the topic's author.

Example

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

Doctype	Content model
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
ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference	prolog
bookmap	topicmeta, bookmeta
map	topicmeta

- topic/author

Name	Description	Data Type	Default Value	Required?
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 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.	(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