The K Desktop Environment

3.3. Meta Information

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 3-2. Example of DocBook Headers

 <bookinfo>
 <title>The Kapp Handbook</title>
 <authorgroup>
 <author>
 <firstname>George</firstname>
 <othername>N.</othername>
 <surname>Ugnacious</surname>
 </author>
 </authorgroup>
 
 <keywordset>
 <keyword>KDE application</keyword>
 </keywordset>
 
 <releaseinfo>1.1.0</releaseinfo>
 <date>03/04/1999</date>
 
 <revhistory>
 <revision>
 <revnumber>1.0
 </revnumber>
 <date>3.4.1999</date>
 <authorinitials>G.N.U.</authorinitials>
 <revremark>Initial release.
 </revremark>
 </revision>
 </revhistory>
 
 <abstract>
 <para>
 Kapp is an application specially designed to do nothing you would ever want.
 </para>
 </abstract>
 
 </bookinfo>

The <BookInfo> tag contains all of the meta information for your document. In most cases the examples in the template should provide all of the tags you need to describe the content of your document. Most of the tags are fairly self-explanatory, but there are a few important details that need to be addressed: