givenname
givenname — The given name of a person.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Attributes
Description
Use givenname
for any given name or chosen name of a
person. This is also used for forenames and sometimes nicknames.
A givenname
is an alternative to
firstname
.
Processing expectations
Formatted inline.
In an address
, this element may inherit
the verbatim qualities of an address.
Parents
These elements contain givenname
: bibliomixed
, bibliomset
, personname
.
This element contains 29 elements.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example personname</title> <para>Starting in DocBook 5.1, <tag>givenname</tag> is an <emphasis>alternative</emphasis> <tag>firstname</tag> in personal names. For example, <personname><givenname>Albert</givenname><surname>Einstein</surname></personname>. </para> </article>