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# attribution

## Name

attribution — The source of a block quote or epigraph

##

# Synopsis

### Mixed Content Model

    attribution ::=
    (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|abbrev|acronym|citation|citerefentry|
     citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|glossterm|footnote|
     phrase|quote|trademark|wordasword|link|olink|ulink|action|
     application|classname|methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|
     ooclass|oointerface|ooexception|command|computeroutput|database|
     email|envar|errorcode|errorname|errortype|filename|function|
     guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|
     hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|literal|
     constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|option|
     optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|returnvalue|
     sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|token|type|
     userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|authorinitials|
     corpauthor|modespec|othercredit|productname|productnumber|
     revhistory|remark|subscript|superscript|inlinegraphic|
     inlinemediaobject|inlineequation|synopsis|cmdsynopsis|
     funcsynopsis|classsynopsis|fieldsynopsis|constructorsynopsis|
     destructorsynopsis|methodsynopsis|indexterm|beginpage)*

### Attributes

Common attributes

## Description

An `Attribution` identifies the source to whom a `BlockQuote` or `Epigraph` is ascribed.

### Processing expectations

May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. Sometimes suppressed.

### Future Changes

The `InterfaceDefinition` element will be discarded in DocBook V4.0. It will no longer be available in the content model of this element.

### Parents

These elements contain attribution: `blockquote`, `epigraph`.

### Children

The following elements occur in attribution: `abbrev`, `acronym`, `action`, `anchor`, `application`, `author`, `authorinitials`, `beginpage`, `citation`, `citerefentry`, `citetitle`, `classname`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `command`, `computeroutput`, `constant`, `constructorsynopsis`, `corpauthor`, `database`, `destructorsynopsis`, `email`, `emphasis`, `envar`, `errorcode`, `errorname`, `errortype`, `exceptionname`, `fieldsynopsis`, `filename`, `firstterm`, `footnote`, `footnoteref`, `foreignphrase`, `funcsynopsis`, `function`, `glossterm`, `guibutton`, `guiicon`, `guilabel`, `guimenu`, `guimenuitem`, `guisubmenu`, `hardware`, `indexterm`, `inlineequation`, `inlinegraphic`, `inlinemediaobject`, `interface`, `interfacename`, `keycap`, `keycode`, `keycombo`, `keysym`, `link`, `literal`, `markup`, `medialabel`, `menuchoice`, `methodname`, `methodsynopsis`, `modespec`, `mousebutton`, `nonterminal`, `olink`, `ooclass`, `ooexception`, `oointerface`, `option`, `optional`, `othercredit`, `parameter`, `phrase`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `prompt`, `property`, `quote`, `remark`, `replaceable`, `returnvalue`, `revhistory`, `sgmltag`, `structfield`, `structname`, `subscript`, `superscript`, `symbol`, `synopsis`, `systemitem`, `token`, `trademark`, `type`, `ulink`, `userinput`, `varname`, `wordasword`, `xref`.

## See Also

`blockquote`, `epigraph`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE blockquote PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <blockquote>
    <attribution>William Shakespeare</attribution>
    <literallayout>
    What say you?  Will you yield, and this avoid?
    Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed?
    </literallayout>
    </blockquote>

| What say you? Will you yield, and this avoid? Or, guilty in defense, be thus destroyed? |
--William Shakespeare |

For additional examples, see also `blockquote`, `chapter`, `literallayout` .

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