blockquote
blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text.
Synopsis
blockquote ::= ![[x]](figs/web/nav/delete.gif)
![[+]](figs/web/nav/right.gif)
![[-]](figs/web/nav/down.gif)
- Sequence of:
- One of:
attribution?- One or more of:
- Sequence of:
- empty
- empty
- Sequence of:
revhistory- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
- List elements
- Paragraph elements
- Publishing 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: appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, caption (db.caption), entry, example, figure, footnote, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, note, orderedlist, para, revdescription, section, sidebar, td, textobject, th, variablelist.
Children
The following elements occur in blockquote: attribution, blockquote, epigraph, example, figure, info (db.titleforbidden.info), info (db.titleonly.info), informaltable (db.cals.informaltable), informaltable (db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, note, orderedlist, para, programlisting, revhistory, sidebar, table (db.cals.table), table (db.html.table), 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.