Dave Pawson writes:
> My general requirement, when producing html, is to have
> a hot link from the link content through to the idvalue
> shown in linkend attribute.
>
> E.g. <link linkend="idn">Hot content </link> linking through
> to whatever element has the corresponding 'idn' value as
> its id attribute.
>
> <example id="idn">This, to me, is a valid target, as might
> be a <para>, section, or <head> element.
>
> Am I in a minority with this one or would others like it
> extended.
> AFAIK, the only valid targets for linkend are 'major'
> wrapper elements, such as <sect1 <section etc.
AFAIK, <link>s work to anywhere. What doesn't work to everywhere is
<xref>, presumably because of the inability to generate appropriate "hot"
text. I generally avoid <link> altogether, because they don't show in
print versions.
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Peter Eisentraut http://yi.org/peter-e/
