<author>

Description

The author of the document.

The author element is a metadata element used to provide the author of the complete document for insertion into the metadata of the target translations. It is placed in the metadata section of the root BDML document.

Attributes

Element name Description
text The author text.
target Apply this metadata element only to the specified targets. See BDML schema for more information on metadata elements.
variant Apply this metadata element only when the variant is specified during translation. See BDML schema for more information on metadata elements.

Immediate descendants

No element descendants are defined for the <author> element.

Immediate ancestors

Element name Relation
<metadata> The metadata element enclosing the author element.

Example

<document xmlns="http://boradoc.org/1.0">
  <metadata>
    <author text="Bob" />
  </metadata>
</document>