Multiple different types of authors

[Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>]

Greetings again.  

I am currently porting a legacy project in DocBook from custom XSLT scripts 
that I wrote to the DocBook XSL project.  That means I need to undo and 
refactor some ignorant hacks I made originally. :-)

One of them is that each article in my book has multiple authors, in different 
positions.  How would I differentiate a "primary author", "contributing 
authors", etc.?  In the old code I was abusing the role attribute of 
<authorgroup>, but of course by default that's ignored by the DocBook XSL 
setup.  What's the best way to denote them, semantically and 
transformationally?

(Ideally I'd like to have a series of lists going across the page in the final 
output, something like:)

Primary      Contributing
----------       -----------------
Joe              Frank
Bob             Steve

Thanks.

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