Schema Documentation - Generic Document Profile
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The block 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.

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

address, annotation, m:annotation-xml, aside (block variant), aside (toc variant), block, body, caption, description, entry (bibliography variant), entry (glossary variant), item, d:longdesc, note (block variant), note (phrase variant), object, sel:otherwise, quote, section, d:simplifiedLanguageDescription, d:summary, td, th, d:tour and sel:when

Allowed children

This element may contain text.

This element may contain the following children: abbr, address (block variant), address (phrase variant), 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, xforms:group, hd, xforms:input, 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), xforms:range, ref, xforms:repeat, its:ruby, s, ssml:say-as (text variant), ssml:say-as (phrase variant), xforms:secret, sel:select (Block variant), sel:select (Phrase variant), xforms:select, xforms:select1, span (text variant), span (phrase variant), sub, ssml:sub (text variant), ssml:sub (phrase variant), sup, table, term, xforms:textarea, time, ssml:token (text variant), ssml:token (phrase variant), transition, 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, @sel:selid, @ssml:onlangfailure, @typeof, @xml:base, @xml:id, @xml:lang and @xml:space
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
a choice of
either one or more of
any of the 26 elements: address, annotation, aside, block, caption, citation, code, d:description, description, hd, list, ln, lngroup, m:math, note, object, p, pagebreak, quote, sel:select, ssml:break, table, transition, verse, xforms:group and xforms:repeat
or one or more of
a choice of
either one of the 53 elements: abbr, address, 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, sel:select, 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, w, xforms:input, xforms:range, xforms:secret, xforms:select, xforms:select1 or xforms:textarea
or text
end of choice
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/