## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <byline>

`<byline>` | contains the primary statement of responsibility given for a work on its title page or at the head or end of the work.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from divbot, divtop, fmchunk, tpParts

Example

    <byline>Written by a CITIZEN who continued all the
    while in London. Never made publick before.</byline>

Example

    <byline>Written from her own MEMORANDUMS</byline>

Example

    <byline>By George Jones, Political Editor, in Washington</byline>

Example

    <dateline>Zagreb:</dateline>
    <byline>de notre envoy&eacute; sp&eacute;cial.</byline>

Example

    <byline>BY
    <docAuthor>THOMAS PHILIPOTT,</docAuthor>
    Master of Arts,
    (Somtimes)
    Of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.</byline>

Note | The byline on a title page may include either the name or a description for the document's author. Where the name is included, it may optionally be tagged using the `<docAuthor>` element.
Module | Declared in file teistr2; Core tag sets: enabled when any TEI base is enabled
Class | divtop; divbot; tpParts; fmchunk

May contain

#PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app c caesura cb certainty cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct docAuthor emph expan fLib foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp lang lb link linkGrp m measure mentioned milestone name num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled space span spanGrp supplied term time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear w xptr xref

May occur within | back body castList div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epilogue front group lg opener performance prologue titlePage

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT byline %om.RO; (#PCDATA | %m.phrase; | docAuthor | %m.Incl;)*>
    <!ATTLIST byline
          %a.global;>

See further | 7.2.2 Openers and Closers; 7.4 Front Matter

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