blockquote

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:03 $

blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text

Synopsis

Content Model

blockquote ::=
(title?,attribution?,
 (itemizedlist|orderedlist|variablelist|note|literallayout|
  programlisting|para|blockquote|mediaobject|informaltable|
  example|figure|table|sidebar|abstract|authorblurb|epigraph)+)

Attributes

Common attributes

Description

Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Future Changes

Epigraph will not be allowed in BlockQuote in DocBook V4.0.

Parents

These elements contain blockquote: appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, caption, example, figure, footnote, legalnotice, listitem, note, revdescription, section, sidebar, textobject.

Children

The following elements occur in blockquote: abstract, attribution, authorblurb, blockquote, epigraph, example, figure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, programlisting, sidebar, table, title, variablelist.

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>Richard Dawkins</attribution>
<para>
The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should 
expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and
no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
</para>
</blockquote>

	The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
--Richard Dawkins

For additional examples, see also attribution, literallayout.

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