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<disp-quote> Quote, Displayed

Extract or extended quoted passage from another work, usually made typographically distinct from surrounding text.

Usage/Remarks

Best Practice

Use this element for epigraphs, as well as for block quotes and extracts within text.
Attributes
content-type
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<answer>, <app>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <explanation>, <fig>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <option>, <p>, <question>, <question-preamble>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <table-wrap>, <td>, <th>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  disp-quote   %disp-quote-model;                           >
Expanded Content Model

(title?, (p)+, attrib?, permissions?)

Tagged Samples
<sec>
Display quote may occur anywhere within a section, at the same level as a paragraph.
...
<sec>
 <title>Introduction</title>
 <disp-quote>
  <p>Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a
   stinking savor; so doth a little folly him that is in reputation
   for wisdom and honour.</p>
  <attrib>Ecclesiastes 10:1</attrib>
 </disp-quote>
 <p>The term &ldquo;flies in the ointment&rdquo; is occasionally used
  to describe minor defects in some endeavor.  But this quote from
  Ecclesiastes has a much wider scope ...</p>
</sec>
...
Epigraph 
...
<body>
 <disp-quote>
  <p><preformat>... who would fardels bear,
   To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
   But that the dread of something after death,
   The undiscover&rsquo;d country from whose bourn
   No traveller returns, puzzles the will
   And makes us rather bear those ills we have
   Than fly to others that we know not of?</preformat></p>
  <attrib>William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, 
   Scene IV</attrib>
 </disp-quote>
 <p>Shakespeare well understood the underpinning of
  our society&rsquo;s tenacious need to cling to life:
  the fear of death, the fear of the unknown.  Yes, we
  acknowledge death is part of nature&rsquo;s cycle,
  but even as we do so, we struggle ...</p>
 <sec>...</sec>
</body>
...
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