Re: DOCBOOK: ambiguity in <xref> regarding cross-reference text

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 08:07:43PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   again, nitpicky, but in the online TDG 2.0.7, in the explanation
> of <xref>, we read:
> 
>   "... If the Endterm attribute is specified, the content of the
>   element pointed by by Endterm must be used as the text of the
>   cross-reference ... If the object pointed to has a specified
>   XRefLabel, that should be used as the cross-reference text."
> 
>   and if both happen to be true?  it's not clear from the <xref>
> page which takes precedence.

I think this is perhaps an issue of stylesheet policy, not
a DTD policy.

In any case, for the XSL stylesheets the xreflabel takes
precedence over the endterm.

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