attribution

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:00 $

attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

attribution ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citetitle|emphasis|
 footnote|phrase|quote|trademark|link|ulink|command|
 computeroutput|email|filename|literal|option|replaceable|
 systemitem|userinput|inlinemediaobject)*

Attributes

Common attributes

Description

An Attribution identifies the source to whom a BlockQuote or Epigraph is ascribed.

Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

Parents

These elements contain attribution: blockquote, epigraph.

See Also

blockquote, epigraph.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE blockquote PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<blockquote>
<attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
<literallayout>
What say you?  Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
</literallayout>
</blockquote>
 


What say you?  Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?

 
--William Shakespeare 

For additional examples, see also blockquote, literallayout.