Problems with blockquotes' pseudo-element styles

[kfranqueiro]

Blockquotes in the Understanding docs include styling which adds an open quote on blockquote p:first-of-type::before, and a close quote on blockquote p:last-of-type::after. Unfortunately, this causes problems in many situations that involve multiple paragraphs, which often involves nesting.

• Understanding Conformance Requirements is the most prominent example
• This also affects the Intent section of Parsing
• Meanwhile, there are blockquotes containing lists in the Intent section of Focus Appearance which do not get these open/close quotes, which may or may not be intentional.

Examples captured by @mbgower:

[patrickhlauke]

I'd suggest just removing/overriding that styling? it seems well-meaning but overly naive

[bruce-usab]

Are there pages where this styling is seemingly working as intended?

I have a hard time coming up with a situation where this formatting would be of any practical utility, at least not with our docs. I think there is a convention in print where a several-paragraphs-long quotation begins each paragraph in the set with “ but only the last paragraph (in the set) ends with ”

[kfranqueiro]

I think the only cases where it works fully as would be expected are under First Exception and Second Exception in Focus Appearance - which each consist of only a single paragraph and nothing else. If we wanted to only apply this behavior to those, I imagine we could use :only-child, but at that point is it even worth having at all for 2 cases out of over a dozen?