Schema Documentation - Newsfeed Aggregator Profile
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The byline element

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The byline element represents the byline used to establish the author(s) of a news or journal article, an entry in an encyclopaedic reference, or similar.

Bylines typically occur on a separate line immediately after the headline in print articles.

Allowed parents

body

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, address, annoref, annotation, citation, code, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, ln, name, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), quote, ref, its:ruby, s, span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, sup, term, time and w

Content model and additional requirements

optional attributes: @about, @by, @class, @content, @continuation, @datatype, @desc, @its:dir, @its:translate, @property, @rel, @resource, @rev, @role, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 27 elements: abbr, address, annoref, annotation, citation, code, definition, emph, emph, expansion, its:ruby, ln, name, num, object, object, quote, ref, s, span, span, sub, sup, term, time, w or w
or text
end of choice
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above, use of this element must also respect the following requirement:
  • The byline element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.
Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/