attribution
attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
citation
citetitle
person
personname
replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
annotation
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
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. Although it appears at the beginning of
the content model for blockquote
and
epigraph
, it is often output at the end.
Parents
These elements contain attribution
: blockquote
, epigraph
.
Children
The following elements occur in attribution: text, abbrev
, acronym
, alt
, anchor
, annotation
, biblioref
, citation
, citetitle
, coref
, date
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), firstterm
(db._firstterm), footnote
, footnoteref
, foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), glossterm
(db._glossterm), indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, person
, personname
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
(db._quote), remark
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, trademark
, wordasword
, xref
.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example attribution</title>
<blockquote>
<attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
<literallayout>
What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
</literallayout>
</blockquote>
</article>