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attribution

Name

attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph

Synopsis

Mixed Content Model

attribution ::=
(#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citation|citerefentry|
 citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|glossterm|footnote|
 phrase|quote|trademark|wordasword|link|olink|ulink|action|
 application|classname|methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|
 ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|command|computeroutput|database|
 email|envar|errorcode|errorname|errortype|filename|function|
 guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|
 hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|literal|
 constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|option|
 optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|returnvalue|
 sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|token|type|
 userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|authorinitials|
 corpauthor|modespec|othercredit|productname|productnumber|
 revhistory|remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|
 inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|synopsis|cmdsynopsis|
 funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|constructorsynopsis|
 destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|beginpage)*

Attributes

Common 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.

[4.0] Future Changes

The InterfaceDefinition element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

Parents

These elements contain attribution: blockquote, epigraph.

See Also

blockquote, epigraph.

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>William Shakespeare</attribution>
<literallayout>
What say you?  Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
</literallayout>
</blockquote>
 

What say you?  Will you yield, and this avoid?
Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
 
--William Shakespeare  

For additional examples, see also blockquote, chapter, literallayout .

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