<disp-quote> Quote, Displayed

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

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Best Practice

Use this element for epigraphs, as well as for block quotes and extracts within text.
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Content Model
<!ELEMENT  disp-quote   %disp-quote-model;                           >
Expanded Content Model

(label?, title?, (address | alternatives | answer | answer-set | array | block-alternatives | boxed-text | chem-struct-wrap | code | explanation | fig | fig-group | graphic | media | preformat | question | question-wrap | question-wrap-group | supplementary-material | table-wrap | table-wrap-group | disp-formula | disp-formula-group | def-list | list | tex-math | mml:math | p | related-article | related-object | disp-quote | speech | statement | verse-group)*, (attrib | permissions)*)

Tagged Samples
<sec>
Display quote may occur anywhere within a section, at the same level as a paragraph.
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<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>
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Epigraph
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<body>
 <disp-quote>
  <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>
  <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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Containing a <speech>
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<disp-quote>
 <speech>
  <speaker>Suda:</speaker>
  <p>I will ask now Kakizawa from Your Party, is 
   it possible [for your party] to merge with the 
   Japan Restoration Party, this [topic] has also 
   become now the focus of the news.</p>
 </speech>
 <speech>
  <speaker>Kakizawa:</speaker>
  <p>When appearing on this program I looked forward 
   enormously to decide on this, well, it is up to 
   [their] policy, policy is important.</p>
 </speech>
 <attrib>(<italic>Shin Hōdō 2001</italic>, November 25, 2012)</attrib>
</disp-quote>
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