attribution

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$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:00 $

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|orgname|quote|trademark|wordasword|personname|link|olink|
 ulink|action|application|classname|methodname|interfacename|
 exceptionname|ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|command|
 computeroutput|database|email|envar|errorcode|errorname|
 errortype|errortext|filename|function|guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|
 guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|
 keycombo|keysym|literal|code|constant|markup|medialabel|
 menuchoice|mousebutton|option|optional|parameter|prompt|property|
 replaceable|returnvalue|sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|
 systemitem|uri|token|type|userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|
 author|authorinitials|corpauthor|corpcredit|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.

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.

Children

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

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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