blockquote

$Revision: 1666 $

$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.

See Also

abstract, attribution, epigraph, highlights, sidebar.

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.