attribution
attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph.
Synopsis
attribution ::= × ⏵
- Zero or more of:
- text
citation
citetitle
person
personname
replaceable
- Graphic inlines ⏵
- Indexing inlines ⏵
- Linking inlines ⏵
- Ubiquitous inlines ⏵
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
No additional 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.
Attributes
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
Parents
2 elements contain attribution
. × ⏵
Children
33 elements occur in attribution
. × ⏵
See Also
Related elements: blockquote
, epigraph
.
Examples
1 |<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
|<title>Example attribution</title>
||
<blockquote>
5 |<attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
|<literallayout>
|What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
|Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
|</literallayout>
10 |</blockquote>
||
</article>
What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid? Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?William Shakespeare