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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:03 $
blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text
blockquote ::= (title?,attribution?, (itemizedlist|orderedlist|variablelist|note|literallayout| programlisting|para|blockquote|mediaobject|informaltable| example|figure|table|sidebar|abstract|authorblurb|epigraph)+)
Common attributes
Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.
Formatted as a displayed block.
These elements contain blockquote: appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, caption, example, figure, footnote, legalnotice, listitem, note, revdescription, section, sidebar, textobject.
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.
<!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.