<quote>
quotation
contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or author to some agency external to the text.
Attributes
Global and inherited attributes:
Classes and content
- Member of
- May contain
core
gaiji
msdescription
namesdates
tagdocs
textstructure
transcr
Character data
- character data
- Contained by
cmc
core
dictionaries
msdescription
namesdates
tagdocs
textstructure
verse
Note
If a bibliographic citation is supplied for the source of a quotation, the two may be grouped using the cit element.
Example
Lexicography has shown little sign of being affected by the
work of followers of J.R. Firth, probably best summarized in his
slogan,
<quote>You shall know a word by the company it
keeps</quote>
<ref>(Firth, 1957)</ref>
Content model
<content>
<macroRef key="macro.specialPara"/>
</content>