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<author-comment> Author Comment

Textual material associated with a contributor.

Usage/Remarks

A typical author comment might explain, for example, some facts about the circumstances under which a contributor wrote the article material. Such remarks are typically added by the publisher, so this element will rarely be used in Authoring.
Attributes
content-type
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<collab>, <contrib>
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 780–794).</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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