Topic:
Used to indicate a citation.
ID
An SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in
associated style sheets. Identifiers are NAME tokens and must be unique within the scope of the current
document.
LANG
This is one of the ISO standard language abbreviations, e.g. "en.uk" for the variety of
English spoken in the United Kingdom. It can be used by parsers to select language specific choices for
quotation marks, ligatures and hyphenation rules. The language attribute is composed from the two letter
language code from ISO 639, optionally followed by a period and a two letter country code from ISO
3166.
CLASS
This a space separated list of SGML NAME tokens and is used to subclass tag names. For instance,
<H2 CLASS=Section> defines a level 2 header that acts as a section header. By convention, class
names are interpreted hierarchically, with the most general class on the left and the most specific on the
right, where classes are separated by a period. The CLASS attribute is most commonly used to attach a
different style to some element, but it is recommended that where practical class names should be picked on
the basis of the element's semantics, because this permitsother uses, such as restricting search through
documents by matching on element class names. The conventions for choosing class names are outside the
scope of this document.
<CITE> is legal within:
<A>, <ABBREV>, <ACRONYM>, <ADDRESS>, <AU>, <B>,
<BANNER>, <BIG>, <BODYTEXT>, <CAPTION>, <CITE>,
<CODE>, <CREDIT>, <DD>, <DEL>, <DFN>, <DIV>, <DT>,
<EM>, <FIGTEXT>, <FN>, <FORM>, <H1>, <H2>, <H3>,
<H4>, <H5>, <H6>, <I>, <INS>, <KBD>, <LANG>, <LH>,
<LI>, <NOTE>, <P>, <PERSON>, <PRE>, <Q>, <S>,
<SAMP>, <SMALL>, <STRONG>, <SUB>, <SUP>, <TD>,
<TH>, <TT>, <U>, <VAR>
The following markup can be used within <CITE>
<A>, <ABBREV>, <ACRONYM>, <AU>, <B>, <BIG>,
<BR>, <CITE>, <CODE>, <DEL>, <DFN>, <EM>, <I>,
<IMG>, <INS>, <KBD>, <LANG>, <MATH>, <PERSON>, <Q>,
<S>, <SAMP>, <SMALL>, <STRONG>, <SUB>, <SUP>,
<TAB>, <TT>, <U>, <VAR>
<CITE><I>Owed to a Fern.<I> Albert Plant. 1932.</CITE>