attribution

attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph

Synopsis

attribution ::= [-]

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.

Parents

These elements contain attribution: blockquote, epigraph.

Children

The following elements occur in attribution: text, alt, anchor, annotation, biblioref, citation, citetitle, indexterm (db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm (db.indexterm.singular), indexterm (db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject, link, olink, person, personname, phrase (db._phrase), remark, replaceable, subscript, superscript, xref.

See Also

blockquote, epigraph

Examples

<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example attribution</title>

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

</article>
 


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

 
  --William Shakespeare

ChangeLog

This alpha reference page is $Revision: 7120 $ published Sun, 22 Jul 2007.