XML:AuthorMerge

Introduction
The AuthorMerge submission specifies how two author records should be merged.

Required Tags
The submission contains three required tags:


 * KeepId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be retained.
 * DropId - Required tag. Specifies which author record will be dropped.
 * Range - Required tag. Specifies the range of changes:
 * TITLES - Only merges authors an the canonical_author table.
 * PUBS - Only merges authors in the pub_authors and aspub_author tables.
 * ALL - Applies changes to all author mapping tables.

Optional Tags
The AuthorMerge submission also contains a number of optional tags. When a merging conflict occurs, these tags are used to specify which version of the data should be used:


 * Canonical - Use when a conflict exists between the canonical names.
 * Legalname - Use when a conflict exists between the legal names.
 * Birthplace - Use when a conflict exists between the birthplaces.
 * Birthdate - Use when a conflict exists between the birthdates
 * Deathdate - Use when a conflict exists between the deathdates.
 * Wikipedia - Use when a conflict exists between Wikipedia URLs.
 * Imdb - Use when a conflict exists between IMDB URLs.