<blockquote>

Block Quote

A quotation set off from the main text.

Expanded Content Model

(title?, (blockquote | equation | figure | informaltable | itemizedlist | mediaobject | note | orderedlist | para | programlisting | table | variablelist)+, attribution?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<appendix>, <article>, <blockquote>, <figure>, <listitem>, <note>, <para>, <section>

Example

<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0-subset Balisage-1.3"
  xml:id="HR-23632987-8973">
  <title>Raleigh's Discoveries in the New World</title>
  <info>
    ...
  </info>
  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>
    <para>On March 25, 1584, Queen Elizabeth I of England charged Sir Walter Raleigh to
      <blockquote>
        <para>discover, search, find out, and view such remote, heathen and barbarous lands,
          countries, and territories, not actually possessed of any Christian Prince, nor inhabited
          by Christian People</para>
        <attribution><xref linkend="mul93"/></attribution>
      </blockquote> That same year Raleigh sent two captains, Philip Amades and Arthur Barlowe, from
      England to Hispaniola and the Canary Islands; from there, the captains were instructed to
      scout the lands ...</para>
    <para>...</para>
  </section>
  ...
</article>

Module

balisage-1-3.dtd