blockquote
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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

The following parameter entities contain blockquote:

Parameter Entities
`%admon.mix;`	`%bookcomponent.content;`	`%component.mix;`
`%divcomponent.mix;`	`%example.mix;`	`%figure.mix;`
`%footnote.mix;`	`%glossdef.mix;`	`%indexdivcomponent.mix;`
`%informal.class;`	`%legalnotice.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, legalnotice, listitem, msgexplan, msgtext, note, para, partintro, preface, procedure, qandadiv, qandaset, question, refsect1, refsect2, refsect3, refsynopsisdiv, revdescription, sect1, sect2, sect3, sect4, sect5, section, setindex, sidebar, simplesect, step, textobject, tip, warning.

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 .