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# quote

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quote — An inline quotation

## Synopsis

### Mixed Content Model

    quote ::=
    (#PCDATA|footnoteref|xref|biblioref|abbrev|acronym|citation|
     citerefentry|citetitle|emphasis|firstterm|foreignphrase|
     glossterm|footnote|phrase|orgname|quote|trademark|wordasword|
     personname|link|olink|ulink|action|application|classname|
     methodname|interfacename|exceptionname|ooclass|oointerface|
     ooexception|package|command|computeroutput|database|email|envar|
     errorcode|errorname|errortype|errortext|filename|function|
     guibutton|guiicon|guilabel|guimenu|guimenuitem|guisubmenu|
     hardware|interface|keycap|keycode|keycombo|keysym|literal|code|
     constant|markup|medialabel|menuchoice|mousebutton|option|
     optional|parameter|prompt|property|replaceable|returnvalue|
     sgmltag|structfield|structname|symbol|systemitem|uri|token|type|
     userinput|varname|nonterminal|anchor|author|authorinitials|
     corpauthor|corpcredit|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

`Quote` surrounds an inline quotation. Using an element for quotations is frequently more convenient than entering the character entities for the quotation marks by hand, and makes it possible for a presentation system to alter the format of the quotation marks.

Block quotations are properly identified as `BlockQuote`s.

### Processing expectations

Formatted inline. The `Quote` element is expected to generate the proper quotation marks. These may be influenced by the `Lang` attribute on an ancestor element. For example, a quote in French might use «guillments» instead of English “quote marks.”

### 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 quote: `application`, `attribution`, `bibliomisc`, `bridgehead`, `citation`, `citetitle`, `emphasis`, `entry`, `firstterm`, `foreignphrase`, `glosssee`, `glossseealso`, `glossterm`, `lineannotation`, `link`, `literallayout`, `lotentry`, `member`, `msgaud`, `olink`, `para`, `phrase`, `primary`, `primaryie`, `productname`, `programlisting`, `quote`, `refentrytitle`, `refpurpose`, `remark`, `screen`, `screeninfo`, `secondary`, `secondaryie`, `see`, `seealso`, `seealsoie`, `seeie`, `seg`, `segtitle`, `simpara`, `subtitle`, `synopsis`, `td`, `term`, `tertiary`, `tertiaryie`, `th`, `title`, `titleabbrev`, `tocback`, `tocentry`, `tocfront`, `ulink`.

### Children

The following elements occur in quote: `abbrev`, `acronym`, `action`, `anchor`, `application`, `author`, `authorinitials`, `beginpage`, `biblioref`, `citation`, `citerefentry`, `citetitle`, `classname`, `classsynopsis`, `cmdsynopsis`, `code`, `command`, `computeroutput`, `constant`, `constructorsynopsis`, `corpauthor`, `corpcredit`, `database`, `destructorsynopsis`, `email`, `emphasis`, `envar`, `errorcode`, `errorname`, `errortext`, `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`, `orgname`, `othercredit`, `package`, `parameter`, `personname`, `phrase`, `productname`, `productnumber`, `prompt`, `property`, `quote`, `remark`, `replaceable`, `returnvalue`, `revhistory`, `sgmltag`, `structfield`, `structname`, `subscript`, `superscript`, `symbol`, `synopsis`, `systemitem`, `token`, `trademark`, `type`, `ulink`, `uri`, `userinput`, `varname`, `wordasword`, `xref`.

## See Also

`abbrev`, `acronym`, `emphasis`, `foreignphrase`, `phrase`, `wordasword`.

## Examples

    <!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
              "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    <para>
    This software is provided <quote>as is</quote>, without expressed
    or implied warranty.
    </para>

This software is provided “as is”, without expressed or implied warranty.

For additional examples, see also `bookinfo`, `link`.

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