I think you may be misreading the current (admittedly complex) content model: it does permit omission of author|editor|respStmt as its first child -- it has to, else the examples would not validate!
But I agree that an attributed book example would be useful, and have added one at rev 5814
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I think you may be misreading the current (admittedly complex) content model: it does permit omission of author|editor|respStmt as its first child -- it has to, else the examples would not validate!
But I agree that an attributed book example would be useful, and have added one at rev 5814