The following description of XHTML is taken from the W3C Web site. It is contained inside a <blockquote> element, which also carries a cite attribute.
XHTML 1.0 is the W3C's first Recommendation for XHTML, following on from earlier work on HTML 4.01, HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and HTML 2.0.
Note how the preceding paragraph is indented from the rest of the text.
If your quotation is going to appear only within a sentence, you should use the <q> element. The following sentence uses the <q> element to form a quote:
As Dylan Thomas said, Somebody's boring me. I think it's me
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This chapter is taken from Beginning Web Programming.