<biography>

The <biography> element holds a longer author biography in the <frontmatter> of a <book>. These entries work together with <author-biographies> in <docinfo>, which controls how they are displayed.

Syntax

Attributes

Attributes for <biography>
AttributeRequired?Values
component = "…"optionalstring
label = "…"optionalstring
xml:id = "…"optionalstring
xml:lang = "…"optionalstring

Children

The following may appear as children: <aside> <biographical> <blockquote> <console> <historical> <idx> <image> <p> <paragraphs> <pre> <program> <sbsgroup> <sidebyside> <tabular> <title> <video>

Parents

This element may appear as an immediate child of the following elements: <author> <frontmatter>

Examples