[docbook-apps] Tighten up : Title page <author> layout

["Fiedler, Tristan" <fiedler at cshl dot edu>]

First, thank you to Bob Stayton for his spot-on answers recently to my DocBook issues!

Another question which has been nagging me :

I have :

<author>
  <firstname>Joe</firstname>
  <surname>Smith
    <remark>
       <footnote><para>Footnote1.</para></footnote>
       <footnote><para>Footnote2.</para></footnote>
    </remark>
   </surname>
			
  <affiliation>
    <orgname>University of Maryland</orgname>
    <address>Baltimore, MD 21250 USA</address>
  </affiliation>
  <email>Smith@umbc.edu</email>
</author>

HTML output looks like :

<div>
 <div class="author">
  <h3 class="author"><span class="firstname"> Joe </span> 
                     <span class="surname">Smith<em><span class="remark">
                     <sup .footnotelink1.. </sup> 
                     <sup .footnotelink2.. </sup>
                     </span></em></span>
  </h3>
  <div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">University of Maryland<br></span>
  <div class="address"><p>Baltimore,&nbsp;MD&nbsp;21250&nbsp;USA</p>
  </div>
  </div>
  <code class="email">&lt;<a href="mailto:smith@umbc.edu";>smith@umbc.edu</a>&gt;</code>
 </div>
</div>
      
While this HTML looks fine, I want to re-style the author section in the HTML output to have much less whitespace, ie. remove the <br> and <p></p> perhaps and replace with comma's to put all the information on a single line with the author is slightly larger font.

If this information is somewhere on the web, could someone please post the link to this information? I am not sure which file to edit in the XSL assemblage.

Thank you all for your suggestions and experience!  We are using DocBook extensively in our freely available online databases.

Cheers,

Tristan