blockquote

blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text.

Synopsis

Description

Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Parents [+]

This element occurs in 73 elements.

Children [+]

This element contains 64 elements.

Examples

  1 <article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
  2 <title>Example blockquote</title>
    
  4 <blockquote><attribution>Richard Dawkins</attribution>
    <para>The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should 
  6 expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and
    no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
  8 </para>
    </blockquote>
 10 
    </article>

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
Last revised by Norman Walsh on 6 Jun 2011 (git hash: 6ffcc7640bbc5f852a318e452c9f210f03292cb9)