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<cite>

The <cite> element is used when you need a bibliographic citation. It specifically identifies the title of the resource.
Though citations are often set apart from surrounding text, such as through italics, rendering of the <cite> element is left up to implementations.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

- topic/cite

Example

<p>The online article <cite>Specialization in the Darwin Information Typing
Architecture</cite> provides a detailed explanation of how to define new
topic types.</p>

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group, @outputclass, and @keyref.

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