I've done a lot of investigation. I totally agree with internal links not being stable through publishing: `3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207` => `"bye.org#orgfa9c151"`
I totally agree with what Nicolas Goaziou says there: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-05/msg01254.html However, I do have an _internal link_ in the form: `[[id:3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207][bye]]` (This link is not hand made at all, it is the result of: `org-id-get-create` `org-store-link` `org-insert-link`.) Which is translated into: `<a href="bye.org#ID-3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207">bye</a>` But no target of the corresponding form is created, and that somewhat in accordance with the cited post above. But it breaks the link. As I understand it, in accordance with the cited post, the internal link should be "interpreted" as: `<a href="bye.org#orgfa9c151">bye</a>` (from: `[[id:3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207][bye]]`). For that, there should be some "translation table": `3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207 => bye.org#orgfa9c151` (there might already such translation table somewhere). (Actually it is `cache`, in https://github.com/emacsmirror/org/blob/master/lisp/ox.el#L4442) The obvious workaround would be to use `CUSTOM_ID`, which is stable through publishing. But it's not at all a functionality I'm looking for. I've thought of a function using `org-map-entries`, creating a `:CUSTOM_ID:` as a duplicate of `:ID:` everywhere, creating the `:ID:` if necessary. Always using `org-id-get-create`. But maybe there is an _obvious way_ to have it working out of the box. Here is a minimal example: ## file: hello.org * hello :PROPERTIES: :ID: e54113f9-2ad7-4a86-94be-68ffc696de0b :END: [[id:3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207][bye]] ## file: bye.org * bye :PROPERTIES: :ID: 3c5997f1-205a-437e-8722-d5f52239a207 :END: Thanks, Chris P.S. I'm pretty sure the minimal example above can work right out of the box with someone, who unlike me, knows how to correctly configure the publishing. However, I mention two other leads, the first one I prefer by far: (to be honest this first one it is not about internal links not breaking at publishing time, which was a "given", but to form more "meaningful" publishing id) 1. Suggestions have been made by Nicolas Goaziou to look in the direction of `org-export-get-reference` (at the level of the "translation table"?) https://github.com/emacsmirror/org/blob/master/lisp/ox.el#L4443 2. Another suggestion is from org-roam https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam/wiki/Hitchhiker's-Rough-Guide-to-Org-roam-V2#export https://gist.github.com/jethrokuan/d6f80caaec7f49dedffac7c4fe41d132
