$Revision: 1666 $
$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text
blockquote ::= (blockinfo
?,title
?,attribution
?, (calloutlist
|glosslist
|bibliolist
|itemizedlist
|orderedlist
|segmentedlist
|simplelist
|variablelist
|caution
|important
|note
|tip
|warning
|literallayout
|programlisting
|programlistingco
|screen
|screenco
|screenshot
|synopsis
|cmdsynopsis
|funcsynopsis
|classsynopsis
|fieldsynopsis
|constructorsynopsis
|destructorsynopsis
|methodsynopsis
|formalpara
|para
|simpara
|address
|blockquote
|graphic
|graphicco
|mediaobject
|mediaobjectco
|informalequation
|informalexample
|informalfigure
|informaltable
|equation
|example
|figure
|table
|msgset
|procedure
|sidebar
|qandaset
|task
|productionset
|constraintdef
|anchor
|bridgehead
|remark
|highlights
|abstract
|authorblurb
|epigraph
|indexterm
|beginpage
)+)
Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.
These elements contain blockquote:
answer
, appendix
, article
, bibliodiv
, bibliography
, blockquote
, callout
, caption
, caution
, chapter
, colophon
, constraintdef
, dedication
, example
, figure
, footnote
, glossary
, glossdef
, glossdiv
, important
, index
, indexdiv
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, itemizedlist
, legalnotice
, listitem
, msgexplan
, msgtext
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, partintro
, preface
, procedure
, qandadiv
, qandaset
, question
, refsect1
, refsect2
, refsect3
, refsection
, refsynopsisdiv
, revdescription
, sect1
, sect2
, sect3
, sect4
, sect5
, section
, setindex
, sidebar
, simplesect
, step
, taskprerequisites
, taskrelated
, tasksummary
, textobject
, tip
, variablelist
, warning
.
The following elements occur in blockquote:
abstract
, address
, anchor
, attribution
, authorblurb
, beginpage
, bibliolist
, blockinfo
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, caution
, classsynopsis
, cmdsynopsis
, constraintdef
, constructorsynopsis
, destructorsynopsis
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, fieldsynopsis
, figure
, formalpara
, funcsynopsis
, glosslist
, graphic
, graphicco
, highlights
, important
, indexterm
, informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
, itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, mediaobjectco
, methodsynopsis
, msgset
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, procedure
, productionset
, programlisting
, programlistingco
, qandaset
, remark
, screen
, screenco
, screenshot
, segmentedlist
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, synopsis
, table
, task
, tip
, title
, variablelist
, warning
.
<!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
.