BookInfo
Name
BookInfo -- Meta-information for a Book
Description
Meta-information for a Book.
Processing expectations
Suppressed. Many of the elements in this wrapper may be
used in presentation, but they are not generally printed as part
of the formatting of the wrapper. It merely serves to identify
where they occur.
Future Changes
AuthorBlurb and Affiliation will be removed
from the inline content of BookInfo in DocBook V4.0.
A new wrapper element will be created to associate this information with
authors, editors, and other contributors.
BookBiblio will be discarded.
Parents
These elements contain BookInfo:
Book.
Children
The following elements occur in BookInfo:
Abbrev, Abstract, Address, Affiliation, ArtPageNums, Author, AuthorBlurb, AuthorGroup, AuthorInitials, BiblioMisc, BiblioSet, BookBiblio, CiteTitle, Collab, ConfGroup, ContractNum, ContractSponsor, Contrib, Copyright, CorpAuthor, CorpName, Date, Edition, Editor, FirstName, Graphic, Honorific, IndexTerm, InvPartNumber, ISBN, ISSN, IssueNum, ITermSet, KeywordSet, LegalNotice, Lineage, MediaObject, ModeSpec, OrgName, OtherCredit, OtherName, PageNums, PrintHistory, ProductName, ProductNumber, PubDate, Publisher, PublisherName, PubsNumber, ReleaseInfo, RevHistory, SeriesVolNums, SubjectSet, Subtitle, Surname, Title, TitleAbbrev, VolumeNum.
In some contexts, the following elements are
allowed anywhere:
IndexTerm.
Attributes
- Contents
Contents, if specified, should contain a list
of all the IDs of the chapter-level subelements of the Book,
in their natural order.
See Also
ArtHeader, BookBiblio, DocInfo, ObjectInfo, RefSynopsisDivInfo, ScreenInfo, Sect1Info, Sect2Info, Sect3Info, Sect4Info, Sect5Info, SectionInfo, SetInfo
Examples
<!DOCTYPE bookinfo PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">
<bookinfo>
<title>User's Guide for the DocBook DTD</title>
<authorgroup>
<author><firstname>Terry</firstname><surname>Allen</surname></author>
<author><firstname>Eve</firstname><surname>Maler</surname>
<affiliation><orgname>Arbortext, Inc.</orgname></affiliation>
</author>
<author><firstname>Norman</firstname><surname>Walsh</surname>
<affiliation><orgname>Arbortext, Inc.</orgname></affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<edition>User's Guide version 1.0 for DocBook V3.0</edition>
<pubdate>1997</pubdate>
<copyright><year>1992</year>
<year>1993</year>
<year>1994</year>
<year>1995</year>
<year>1996</year>
<year>1997</year>
<holder>Arbortext, Inc.,
HaL Computer Systems, Inc.,
Fujitsu Software Corp., and
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute
the DocBook DTD and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and
without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above
copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies.</para>
</legalnotice>
<legalnotice>
<para>The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of
this DTD for any purpose. It is provided
<quote>as is</quote> without expressed
or implied warranty. If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for
declaring and referencing additional general entities and declaring additional
notations, identify your DTD as a variant of DocBook.</para>
</legalnotice>
</bookinfo>For additional examples, see also Book,
Collab.
Copyright © 1999 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.