Re: authorinitials in authorgroup

Hi Henrik,

That's a nice application.  I think the answer to your question is that 
allowing authorinitials would *require* an application to resolve them, 
and the DocBook standard is not written to require such applications. If 
I had to write stock Docbook for it, I would use:

<authorgroup>
   <author>
     <othername role="initials">ABC</othername>
   </author>
  ...

It is longer, but achieves the same purpose.

Of course, you can always customize the schema for your purposes, as it 
is written to be easily customized.  Norm Walsh wrote a section in 
/DocBook: The Definitive Guide /for this purpose:

https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/ch05.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]

On 2/1/2019 1:55 AM, Henrik Ryom wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there any reason why authorinitials isn’t allowed in authorgroup?
>
> My intention is to allow our editors to insert authorinitials, check these against a database using Schematron and in a process substitute the authorinitials with a proper constructed author element using data from the same database.
>
> Best regards
>
> Henrik Ryom
> Karnov Group
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