"Styling" references to figures or tables

[Bryce L Nordgren <bnordgren@fs.fed.us>]

It would be very useful to have a means to style a reference to a figure or
table in the DITA source.  Right now, the text which is substituted for an
xref is different depending on the conversion target.  It would be very
useful to specify that the processing engines should substitute "Figure
{#}" or "Figure {#} on page {#}" or "the {above,following} figure" when I
type <xref/> in the source.  Such a usage of xref is strongly coupled to
the sentence in which it is found, and the sentence will only read
correctly when the document is processed for the target for which it is
written.

Bryce