Re: [docbook-apps] Which element for cross-document xref?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

W. Borgert wrote:

> I'm using xref happily in my document. Now I like to split the
> source into chapters, xincluded by a master file. That way any
> xref from one file to the another becomes invalid, because an
> IDREF (xref linkend) has to point to an ID in the same document,
> right? Shall I use another element instead of xref?

You can either silently ignore such error messages when validating 
chapter alone, or use olink linking:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Olinking.html

If you are using DocBook V5, you can use <xref xlink:href="#foo"/> 
instead of <xref linkend="foo"/> to skip validation of ID/IDREFs.

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