if ( !
empty( $post_ids ) ) { $post_ids =
array_map( 'absint',
$post_ids );
$and = 'AND ID IN ( ' .
implode( ', ',
$post_ids ) . ')';
} else { $and = '';
} $authors = array
();
$results =
$wpdb->
get_results( "SELECT DISTINCT post_author FROM
$wpdb->posts WHERE post_status != 'auto-draft'
$and"
);
foreach ( (array) $results as $result ) { $authors[] =
get_userdata( $result->post_author
);
} $authors =
array_filter( $authors );
foreach ( $authors as $author ) { echo "\t<wp:author>";
echo '<wp:author_id>' .
(int) $author->ID . '</wp:author_id>';
echo '<wp:author_login>' .
wxr_cdata( $author->user_login
) . '</wp:author_login>';
echo '<wp:author_email>' .
wxr_cdata( $author->user_email
) . '</wp:author_email>';
echo '<wp:author_display_name>' .
wxr_cdata( $author->display_name
) . '</wp:author_display_name>';
echo '<wp:author_first_name>' .
wxr_cdata( $author->first_name
) . '</wp:author_first_name>';