Commit 2f90d9ff authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

Update link guidelines.

parent feba07f8
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Linking within SGML documents can be confusing, so here is a summary:
......@@ -7,22 +7,20 @@ Intra-document Linking
----------------------
<xref>
used to link to a section without supplying text for the link;
text comes from the link target; has no close tag
use to get link text from the title of the target link; has no
close tag
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/xref.html
<link>
allows link text to be supplied, requires </link>
use to supply text for the link, requires </link>
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/link.html
linkend=
controls the target of the link/xref
controls the target of the link/xref, required
endterm=
allows the text of the link/xref to be taken from a different
link target; endterm in a <link> overrides the supplied text
for <xref>, allows the text of the link/xref to be taken from a
different link target title
External Linking
......@@ -34,12 +32,12 @@ External Linking
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/ulink.html
url=
used by <ulink> to specify the URL
used by <ulink> to specify the URL, required
Guidelines
----------
o Do not use endterm with <link> because the supplied text is ignored; use
<xref>
o If you want to supply text, use <link>, else <xref>
o Do not use text with <ulink> so the URL appears in printed output
o You can supply text at the target location with 'xreflabel'
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