returns the authors

get_author_list() returns a text string with all of the authors listed under the tag.

get_author_list(eml_object)

Arguments

eml_object

is an R object imported (typically from an EML-formatted .xml file) using EmL::read_eml(, from="xml").

Value

a text string

Details

get_author_list() assumes every author has at least 1 first name (either givenName or givenName1) and only one last name (surName). Middle names (givenName2) are optional. The author List is formatted with the last name, comma, first name for the first author and the fist name, last name for all subsequent authors. The last author's name is preceded by an 'and'.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
get_author_list(eml_object)
} # }