Re: Snapshots no longer build

On 29 January 2011 17:58, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> On 29 January 2011 11:12, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> Any idea why this is happening?
>
>> I don't know what's causing that since I can see both of those IDs are
>> present, but I should also mention that the identities those linkends
>> point to should have xreflabel attributes.  At the moment, it's
>> reading: "Use the OSSP UUID library when building the Section F.44
>> module"
>
> Yeah, that is pretty icky, and Bruce introduced similar unpleasantness
> in a bunch of places.  I'm unsure that xreflabel is a good fix, though,
> because there are other places where the wording is such that a
> chapter/section number reference *is* appropriate, eg a parenthetical
> cross-reference "(see <xref>)".

Okay, I see why that's a problem.

> I think what we might need is to use <link linkend="xml2">xml2</link>
> in the places where we want the xref to read as an incidental hyperlink
> rather than a cross-reference.  Comments?

Sure, that would work.

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