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Subject: Re: [docbook] author


hi,


you could use "pandoc" to convert your documents.

http://pandoc.org/

I use it very often and it does a pretty good job.

Best regards,

Eric


Le mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 15:31 -0500, maxwell a écrit :
> I have a question about the <author> element.  It can occur as a 
> daughter of a bunch of elements, but there are two parents where its 
> usage seems a bit unclear to me: <info> and <authorgroup>.  The intent 
> is clear: <author> should appear under <authorgroup> "when a document 
> has multiple authors or collabarators" 
> (http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/authorgroup.html).  So in the 
> context of a book or chapter or author, multiple authors should be under 
> /book/info/authorgroup/. However, afaik there's nothing in the schema 
> preventing one from having both /book/info/authorgroup/author and 
> /book/info/author *in the same document*.  (It's not clear to me whether 
> one could have multiple <author> daughters of /book/info/, or just one.  
> I think there can be multiples.)
> 
> What is the intent if there's an <author> under both paths?  Ideally, I 
> guess they'd be combined in some smart way; or else there should be a 
> warning.  The combination of course has to be handled by the particular 
> app you're using to convert the XML into some other form.  But a 
> warning--if appropriate--would come from the schemas.  (Probably not 
> possible with rng; maybe there could be a schematron rule?)
> 
> The same thing happens with <editor> and <othercredit>, both of which 
> can appear in the same places as <author>; and the same possibility of 
> putting these elements under <someelement>/<authorgroup> or directly 
> under <someelement> happens with <biblioentry> and probably several 
> other places.
> 
> BTW, the question came up because we had <author> in both places, and I 
> was trying to debug why someone's name wasn't showing up in the PDF.
> 
>     Mike Maxwell
>     University of Maryland
> 
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