Person objects

A person object is a JavaScript object literal with the following properties:

name (required)

The name of the person.

url

The URL for the person, can be used to point to the person's personal site.

company

The company for which the person is working.

companyURL

The URL for the above company.

mailto

An email with which to contact the person.

note

Additional information on the person, often used to indicate a former employer (if the person switched companies during edition) or to clarify that an editor is no longer active even if her name is still attached to the document out of respect for her past contributions.

w3cid

Numeric id of the editor profile in W3C (W3C account holders can find their id by visiting their W3C profile); it is used by the W3C publication system to associate specifications with their editors.

extras

Array of objects consisting of the name, href, and class entries. The generated content is a sequence of elements the form <span class="class><a href=" href">name</a></span> added to the end of the person's entry. Can be used to add, e.g., the twitter account, ORCID ID, etc., of the person.

This example shows a group of person objects being used to define the editors of a spec.

var respecConfig = {
  editors: [
    {
      name: "Marcos Caceres",
      company: "Mozilla Corporation",
      companyURL: "https://mozilla.org/",
      w3cid: 39125,
    },
    {
      name: "Kenneth Rohde Christiansen",
      company: "Intel Corporation",
      companyURL: "http://intel.com",
      w3cid: 57705,
    },
    {
      name: "Mounir Lamouri",
      company: "Google Inc.",
      companyURL: "https://google.com",
      w3cid: 45389,
    },
    {
      name: "Anssi Kostiainen",
      company: "Intel Corporation",
      companyURL: "http://intel.com",
      w3cid: 41974,
    },
  ],
};