<docAuthor>

<docAuthor> (document author) contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the title page (often but not always contained in a byline). [4.6. Title Pages]
Module textstructure
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source)) att.canonical (ref)
Member of
Contained by
core: lg list
figures: figure table
msdescription: msItem
textstructure: body byline div front titlePage
May contain
Note
The document author's name often occurs within a byline, but the docAuthor element may be used whether the byline element is used or not. It should be used only for the author(s) of the entire document, not for author(s) of any subset or part of it. (Attributions of authorship of a subset or part of the document, for example of a chapter in a textbook or an article in a newspaper, may be encoded with byline without docAuthor.)
Examples

<titlePage>
   
<docTitle>
      
<titlePart>Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four
Parts.
</titlePart>
   
</docTitle>
   
<byline> By <docAuthor>Lemuel Gulliver</docAuthor>, First a Surgeon,
and then a Captain of several Ships
</byline>
</titlePage>
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<elementSpec module="textstructure" ident="docAuthor">
   
<gloss>document author</gloss>
   
<desc>contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the
title page (often but not always contained in a byline).
</desc>
   
<classes>
      
<memberOf key="att.global"/>
      
<memberOf key="model.titlepagePart"/>
      
<memberOf key="model.divWrapper"/>
      
<memberOf key="model.pLike.front"/>
      
<memberOf key="att.canonical"/>
   
</classes>
   
<content>
      
<macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
   
</content>
</elementSpec>