`<author>`

An author is the entity that created the content, such as a person, organization, or application.

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: link-relationship attributes, universal attributes, and @keyref.

The following code sample shows that two people contributed to the topic:

<prolog>
    <author type="creator">Jane</author>
    <author type="contributor">John</author>
</prolog>

Jane is specified as a creator of the topic, and John is specified as a contributor to the topic.