bookmeta

The <bookmeta> element contains information about the book that is not considered book content, such as copyright information, author information, and any classifications.

Example

In this example:
  • The <authorinformation> contains the content for a reader's comment form; the <maintainer> element references that author information to create the reader comment form.
  • The <prodinfo> element contains the book's product information. This includes the product name, and the version, release, and modification information.
  • The <bookid> element contains the book's form number and part number information. The <maintainer> element contains the reader comment information; point to the <authorinformation> element for a complete RCF.
  • The <bookrights> element contains the book's copyright information.
<bookmeta>
 <authorinformation id="rcf">
  <organizationinfo><namedetails><organizationnamedetails>
  <organizationname>IBM</organizationname>
  </organizationnamedetails></namedetails>
  <addressdetails>ATTN: Dept 542<thoroughfare>3905 37th Street NW</thoroughfare>
  <locality>Rochester, MN<postalcode>55901-6666</postalcode></locality>
  <country>USA</country></addressdetails>
  <contactnumbers><contactnumber type="telephone">800-555-1212</contactnumber>
  <contactnumber type="fax">800-555-1213</contactnumber></contactnumbers>
  <emailaddresses><emailaddress>phred@us.ibm.com</emailaddress></emailaddresses>
  <urls><url>http://w3-03.ibm.com/ids/page/636</url></urls>
  </organizationinfo>
 </authorinformation>
 <prodinfo>
  <prodname>My Product</prodname>
  <vrmlist><vrm release="Release 1" version="Version 3"/></vrmlist>
 </prodinfo>
 <bookid><bookpartno>99F9999</bookpartno><booknumber>SC00-0000-00</booknumber>
 <maintainer href="#rcf"></maintainer></bookid>
 <bookrights><copyrfirst><year>1996</year></copyrfirst><copyrlast><year>2006</year>
 </copyrlast><bookowner><organization>IBM</organization></bookowner></bookrights>
</bookmeta>

Contains

Doctype Content model
bookmap ( ( linktext) (optional) then ( searchtitle) (optional) then ( shortdesc) (optional) then ( author or authorinformation) (any number) then ( source) (optional) then ( publisherinformation) (any number) then ( critdates) (optional) then ( permissions) (optional) then ( audience) (any number) then ( category) (any number) then ( keywords) (any number) then ( prodinfo) (any number) then ( othermeta) (any number) then ( resourceid) (any number) then ( bookid) (optional) then ( bookchangehistory) (any number) then ( bookrights) (any number) then ( data) (any number) )

Contained by

Doctype Parents
bookmap bookmap

Inheritance:

- map/topicmeta bookmap/bookmeta

Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
lockmeta Indicates whether any of the meta information should be replaced by meta information in the referenced topic. (yes | no | -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 Common attribute described in Other common DITA attributes.      

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