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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!DOCTYPE reference PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Reference//EN"
- "reference.dtd">
-<reference id="longquoteref" xml:lang="en-us">
-<title><xmlelement>longquoteref</xmlelement></title>
-    <shortdesc>A long quotation reference is a reference to the source of a lengthy
-        quotation.</shortdesc>
-<prolog><metadata>
-<keywords>
-        <indexterm>elements<indexterm>body<indexterm><xmlelement>longquoteref</xmlelement></indexterm></indexterm></indexterm>
-                <indexterm>processing
-                        expectations<indexterm><xmlelement>longquoteref</xmlelement></indexterm></indexterm>
-        <indexterm>quotations<indexterm>reference to source</indexterm></indexterm></keywords>
-</metadata></prolog>
-<refbody>
-    <section id="processing-expectations">
-      <title>Processing expectations</title>
-      <p>Rendering of this element is left up to DITA processors. Depending on the presentation
-                format, it might be appropriate to ignore the element, present it as a link, use it
-                to turn the entire quotation into a link, or do something else.</p>
-    </section>
-    <section id="attributes">
-      <title>Attributes</title>
-      <p>The following attributes are available on this element: <ph conkeyref="reuse-attributes/ref-universalatts"/>, <ph conkeyref="reuse-attributes/ref-linkatts"/>, and <xref
-          keyref="attributes-common/attr-keyref"><xmlatt>keyref</xmlatt></xref>.</p>
-    </section>
-<example id="example" otherprops="examples"><title>Example</title>
-            <p>In the following code sample, the <xmlelement>longdescref</xmlelement> element
-                references an online version of <cite>As You Like It</cite>.</p>
-            <codeblock>&lt;p>The following is one of the most frequently used quotations from a Shakespearean play:
-  &lt;lq>All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have 
-      their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.’
-    &lt;longquoteref href="http://www.example.org/shakespeare/as-you-like-it" format="html"
-       scope="external">As you like it&lt;/longquoteref>
-  &lt;/lq>
-&lt;/p>
-  </codeblock></example>
-</refbody>
-</reference>
-