blockquote

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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $

blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text

Synopsis

Content Model

blockquote ::=
(blockinfo?,title?,attribution?,
 (%component.mix;)+)

Attributes

Common attributes

Parameter Entities

The following parameter entities contain blockquote:

Parameter Entities
`%admon.mix;`	`%bookcomponent.content;`	`%component.mix;`
`%divcomponent.mix;`	`%example.mix;`	`%figure.mix;`
`%footnote.mix;`	`%glossdef.mix;`	`%indexdivcomponent.mix;`
`%informal.class;`	`%legalnotice.mix;`	`%listpreamble.mix;`
`%para.mix;`	`%qandaset.mix;`	`%refcomponent.mix;`
`%revdescription.mix;`	`%sidebar.mix;`	`%textobject.mix;`

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: 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.

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.