personname
personname — The personal name of an individual.
Synopsis
- One of:
- 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
- One or more of:
- One or more of:
- Zero or more of:
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.
This element occurs in 63 elements.
This element contains 35 elements.
See Also
author
, authorgroup
, collab
, contrib
, editor
, othercredit
, personblurb
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example personname</title> <para>Starting in DocBook 4.2, personal names, like <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.