blockquote

Name

blockquote -- A quotation set off from the main text

Synopsis

Content Model
blockquote ::=
(title?,attribution?,
 (calloutlist|glosslist|itemizedlist|orderedlist|segmentedlist|
  simplelist|variablelist|caution|important|note|tip|warning|
  literallayout|programlisting|programlistingco|screen|screenco|
  screenshot|synopsis|cmdsynopsis|funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|
  fieldsynopsis|constructorsynopsis|destructorsynopsis|
  methodsynopsis|formalpara|para|simpara|address|blockquote|
  graphic|graphicco|mediaobject|mediaobjectco|informalequation|
  informalexample|informalfigure|informaltable|equation|example|
  figure|table|msgset|procedure|sidebar|qandaset|productionset|
  constraintdef|anchor|bridgehead|remark|highlights|abstract|
  authorblurb|epigraph|indexterm|beginpage)+)
Attributes Common attributes
Parameter Entities
admon.mix bookcomponent.content component.mix
divcomponent.mix example.mix figure.mix
footnote.mix glossdef.mix indexdivcomponent.mix
informal.class legalnotice.mix listpreamble.mix
para.mix qandaset.mix refcomponent.mix
revdescription.mix sidebar.mix textobject.mix

Description

Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.

Processing expectations

Formatted as a displayed block.

Future Changes

Epigraph will not be allowed in BlockQuote in DocBook V4.0.

Parents

These elements contain blockquote: answer, appendix, article, bibliodiv, bibliography, blockquote, callout, caption, caution, chapter, colophon, constraintdef, dedication, example, figure, footnote, glossary, glossdef, glossdiv, important, index, indexdiv, informalexample, informalfigure, itemizedlist, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, orderedlist, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsection, refsynopsisdiv, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, textobject, tip, variablelist, warning.

Children

The following elements occur in blockquote: abstract, address, anchor, attribution, authorblurb, beginpage, blockquote, bridgehead, calloutlist, caution, classsynopsis, cmdsynopsis, constraintdef, constructorsynopsis, destructorsynopsis, epigraph, equation, example, fieldsynopsis, figure, formalpara, funcsynopsis, glosslist, graphic, graphicco, highlights, important, indexterm, informalequation, informalexample, informalfigure, informaltable, itemizedlist, literallayout, mediaobject, mediaobjectco, methodsynopsis, msgset, note, orderedlist, para, procedure, productionset, programlisting, programlistingco, qandaset, remark, screen, screenco, screenshot, segmentedlist, sidebar, simpara, simplelist, synopsis, table, tip, title, variablelist, warning.

See Also

abstract, attribution, epigraph, highlights, sidebar.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE blockquote PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<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>
 

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.

 
--Richard Dawkins  

For additional examples, see also attribution, literallayout.