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<author-comment> Author Comment

Textual material associated with a contributor.

Usage/Remarks

Common Practice

While 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
content-type
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<collab>, <contrib>, <contrib-group>
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
    &#x201C;Genome Annotation Series&#x201D; 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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