Name
attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph
Synopsis
attribution ::=
(text | citation
|
citetitle
| person
|
personname
|
phrase
db._phrase | replaceable
| Graphic inlines | Indexing inlines | Linking inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*
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. Although it appears at the beginning of
the content model for blockquote
and
epigraph
, it is often output at the end.
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>