The tags covered in this section are listed below.
| bookinfo - Metainformation for a book |
| title - Text of a heading or the title of a block-oriented element |
| authorgroup - Wrapper for author information |
| author - Author of a document |
| authorinitials - Initials or other identifier for the author of a revision or comment |
| firstname - Given name |
| othername - Name component that is not a firstname, surname, or lineage |
| surname - Family name |
| keywordset - Set of terms describing the content of a document |
| keyword - Term describing the content of a document |
| releaseInfo - Information about a particular version of a document |
| revhistory - Revisions to a document |
| revision - Entry in revhistory, describing some revision made to the text |
| revnumber - Number of a revision |
| revremark - Description of a revision |
| abstract - Document summary |
| date - Date of publication or revision of a document |
Example 5-1. DocBook metainformation
<bookinfo> <title>The Twiddle Handbook</title> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>George</firstname> <othername>N.</othername> <surname>Ugnacious</surname> </author> </authorgroup> <date>03/04/1999</date> <releaseinfo>1.01.00</releaseinfo> <abstract> <para> <application>twiddle</application> is an application specially designed to do nothing you would ever want. </para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>twiddle</keyword> <keyword>sample application</keyword> </keywordset> </bookinfo>
The <bookinfo> tag contains all of the meta information for your document.
It is information that describes your document, as opposed as its contents that are in the various chapters. This allows to:
retrieve a specific among many others on your local hard disk
print some information on the front page, under the control of the style sheets
have it retrieved by search engines if you put it online in HTML format
etc ...