Simplified DocBook: The Definitive Guide (Version 0.9.1 for Simplified DocBook 5.1)
attribution
attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
citetitle
personname
phrase
(db._phrase)replaceable
- Graphic inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
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.
Parents
These elements contain attribution
: blockquote
, epigraph
.
Children
The following elements occur in attribution: text, citetitle
, inlinemediaobject
, personname
, phrase
(db._phrase), replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
.
See Also
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example attribution</title>
<blockquote>
<attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
<literallayout>
What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
</literallayout>
</blockquote>
</article>