The
quote element represents a quotation from a real or fictitious source.
When citing the source of a quotation, the
citation
must be explicitly linked to the
quote by means of the
ref
attribute.
If a
quote element contains only a single child
citation element, and the
citation does not contain a
ref attribute or child
ref
element, the association between the two elements is implied.
If a
quote does not contain a citation, it can still be linked to the work it is cited from by attaching a
ref
attribute referencing an entry in a
bibliography
, for example. To reference other resources, including resources external to the current document, the
xlink:href
attribute must be used.
The
role
attribute optionally expresses the semantic nature of the quote. The
role value
epigraph, for example, indicates the quoted passage or verse represents an epigraph for the document or section.
Usage Example
<quote>
<p>But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this — we can perceive
that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in
each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.</p>
<citation>W. WHEWELL: Bridgewater Treatise.</citation>
</quote>
Allowed parents
annotation,
m:annotation-xml,
aside,
block,
caption,
description,
item,
d:longdesc,
note (block variant),
note (phrase variant),
object,
quote,
section,
d:simplifiedLanguageDescription,
d:summary,
td,
th and
d:tour
Allowed children
This element may contain text.
This element may contain the following children: abbr,
annoref,
annotation (block variant),
annotation (phrase variant),
aside,
block,
ssml:break,
caption,
char,
citation (block variant),
citation (phrase variant),
code (block variant),
code (phrase variant),
d,
definition,
description,
d:description,
emph (text variant),
emph (phrase variant),
expansion,
hd,
rend:linebreak,
list,
ln,
lngroup,
m:math,
name,
note (block variant),
note (phrase variant),
noteref,
num,
object (block variant),
object (text variant),
object (phrase variant),
p,
pagebreak,
ssml:phoneme (text variant),
ssml:phoneme (phrase variant),
ssml:prosody (text variant),
ssml:prosody (phrase variant),
quote (block variant),
quote (phrase variant),
ref,
its:ruby,
s,
ssml:say-as (text variant),
ssml:say-as (phrase variant),
span (text variant),
span (phrase variant),
sub,
ssml:sub (text variant),
ssml:sub (phrase variant),
sup,
table,
term,
time,
ssml:token (text variant),
ssml:token (phrase variant),
verse and
w
Content model and additional requirements
optional attributes:
@about,
@by,
@class,
@content,
@continuation,
@datatype,
@desc,
@its:dir,
@its:translate,
@property,
@rel,
@resource,
@rev,
@role,
@ssml:onlangfailure,
@typeof,
@xml:base,
@xml:id,
@xml:lang and
@xml:spaceoptionally
a choice of
end of choice
a choice of
either
one or more of
any of the 21 elements:
annotation,
aside,
block,
caption,
citation,
code,
d:description,
description,
hd,
list,
ln,
lngroup,
m:math,
note,
object,
p,
pagebreak,
quote,
ssml:break,
table and
verseor
one or more of
a choice of either one of the 45 elements:
abbr,
annoref,
annotation,
char,
citation,
code,
d,
definition,
emph,
emph,
expansion,
its:ruby,
ln,
m:math,
name,
note,
noteref,
num,
object,
object,
pagebreak,
quote,
ref,
rend:linebreak,
s,
span,
span,
ssml:break,
ssml:break,
ssml:phoneme,
ssml:phoneme,
ssml:prosody,
ssml:prosody,
ssml:say-as,
ssml:say-as,
ssml:sub,
ssml:sub,
ssml:token,
ssml:token,
sub,
sup,
term,
time,
w or
wor text
end of choice
Note that in addition to restrictions presented in the content model above,
use of this element must also respect the following requirement:
- The
quote element must neither be empty nor contain only whitespace.
Such requirements take precedence over any conflicting statements in the
content model or in the lists above of allowed children and parents.
Variants
This element exists in 2 variants. The other variant is the phrase variant.
Namespace
http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/