blockquote
blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text.
Synopsis
blockquote ::= ![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
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- Sequence of:
- One of:
attribution?- One or more of:
bridgeheaddialoguedramapoetryremarkrevhistory- Indexing inlines
- Admonition elements
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing elements
- Technical elements
- Verbatim elements
- One of:
Attributes
Description
Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.
Processing expectations
Formatted as a displayed block.
Parents
These elements contain blockquote: acknowledgements, answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, bibliolist, blockquote, callout, calloutlist, caption, chapter, colophon, cover, dedication, dialogue, drama, entry, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, glosslist, index, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, linegroup, listitem, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, poetry, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, result, revdescription, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, taskprerequisites, taskrelated, tasksummary, textobject, toc, variablelist.
Children
The following elements occur in blockquote: address, anchor, attribution, bibliolist, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, dialogue, drama, epigraph, equation, example, figure, formalpara, glosslist, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, poetry, procedure, qandaset, remark, revhistory, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, table, task, title, titleabbrev, variablelist.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example blockquote</title>
<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>
</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.