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The phrase variant of the quote element

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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.

Quotation marks should be included within the element if they must be retained in the file. The use of CSS for appending these characters is recommended, however, for the flexibility it allows to change the characters depending on the desired output.

Usage Example

<p>His only allusion to human evolution was the understatement that 
   <quote>light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history</quote>.</p>

Allowed parents

annotation (block variant), annotation (phrase variant), m:annotation-xml, aside, block, caption, citation (block variant), citation (phrase variant), d, definition, description (block variant), description (phrase variant), item, ln, d:longdesc, meta, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), object (block variant), object (phrase variant), p, ssml:phoneme, ssml:prosody, quote (block variant), quote (phrase variant), its:rb, its:rt, s, ssml:say-as (phrase variant), ssml:say-as (text variant), d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, span, ssml:sub, d:summary, td, th and d:tour

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, annoref, annotation, ssml:break, char, citation, code, d, definition, emph (text variant), emph (phrase variant), expansion, rend:linebreak, ln, m:math, name, note, noteref, num, object (text variant), object (phrase variant), pagebreak, ssml:phoneme (text variant), ssml:phoneme (phrase variant), ssml:prosody (text variant), ssml:prosody (phrase variant), quote, 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, term, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant) 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:space
optionally the following 2 co-ocurring attributes: @ssml:alphabet and @ssml:ph
optionally
a choice of
either @ref
or a mix of
• @xlink:href
• an optional @xlink:type
• an optional @xlink:title
• an optional @xlink:show
• an optional @xlink:actuate
end of mix
end of choice
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 w
or 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 block variant.

Namespace

http://www.daisy.org/ns/z3998/authoring/