<disp-quote>

Quote, Displayed

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

Remarks

Best Practice: Use this element for epigraphs, as well as for block quotes and extracts within text.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

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)*)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<answer>, <app>, <app-group>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <disp-quote>, <explanation>, <fig>, <glossary>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <notes>, <option>, <p>, <question>, <question-preamble>, <ref-list>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <supplementary-material>, <table-wrap>

Example 1

A 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>
...

Example 2

Epigraph:
...
<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>
...

Example 3

<speech> with an attribution:
...
<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>
    ...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.3d1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of October 2019

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