blockquote
blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text.
Synopsis
- Sequence of:
- One of:
attribution
?- One or more of:
- Sequence of:
- empty
- empty
- Sequence of:
revhistory
- Formal elements
- Graphic elements
- Informal elements
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)
- 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.