<author-comment> Author Comment

Textual material associated with a contributor.

Usage/Remarks

Common Practice

Although a typical author comment might explain, for example, some facts about the circumstances under which a contributor wrote the article material, during conversion the <author-comment> element can also act as an escape mechanism to take the content of any contributor-related elements not anticipated by the Suite.
Attributes

Base Attributes

Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  author-comment
                        %author-comment-model;                       >
Expanded Content Model

(title?, (p)+)

Tagged Samples
Related material description
...
<contrib-group>
 <contrib contrib-type="editor">
  <name><surname>Pollard</surname>
   <given-names>Thomas D.</given-names></name>
  <author-comment>
   <p>This essay constitutes the second article in the
    “Genome Annotation Series” initiated by
    Thomas D. Pollard, Essay Editor. The first essay, by
    J.S. Berg, B.C. Powell, and R.E. Cheney, appeared in
    the April 2001 issue of <italic>Molecular Biology of the
    Cell</italic> (Vol. 12, Issue 4, pp 780&#x2013;794).</p>
  </author-comment>
 </contrib>
 <contrib contrib-type="author">
  <name><surname>Boehm</surname>
   <given-names>Markus</given-names></name>
  <aff>Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute
   of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes
   of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20892</aff>
 </contrib>
 ...
</contrib-group>
...
Instead of an affiliation
...
<contrib contrib-type="author">
 <name>
  <surname>Crutchley</surname>
  <given-names>Alison Claire</given-names>
 </name>
 <author-comment>
  <p>Independent scholar</p>
 </author-comment>
</contrib>
...
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