I didn’t mean that the first paragraph is part of the blockquote. I was trying to say that if it the texts were written on paper, I would consider the quoted stuff to be in the same paragraph as the text in the <p> given in the example. That’s why I was confused about why the <p> element is closed before the blockquote… But I see you’ve answered this in my other post on Assessment wanted for Marking up a letter and some questions , where you mentioned
a paragraph element is a separator for a chunk of text of any length - it doesn’t necessarily have to be a grammatically correct paragraph.
and
you should close it before opening another block level element that is part of the same text flow.
So thanks a lot!