Hussein,

Thank you for your answer.On lun, 2016-11-14 at 13:23 +0100, Hussein Shafie 
wrote:
> My answer assumes that you are talking about DocBook v5+, not DocBook v4 
> (which does not support <xref xlink:href="#..."/>).

I use indeed DocBook v5.

> 
> 
> 
> On 11/14/2016 11:58 AM, Vincent Bossier wrote:
> > 
> > I use <xref xlink:href="#..."/> links in my DocBook documents. When
> > creating an xref in XMLMind, there is a default "linkend" attribute but
> > no xlink:href.
> Note that <xref xlink:href="#foo"> (starting with '#') is functionally 
> equivalent to <xref linkend="foo">, just more complex and not well 
> supported by XMLmind XML Editor (because this variant of <xref> is not 
> really useful).

There is one difference though: <xref xlink:href="#foo"> allows cross-
referencing across different files. I use typically this when I work on a large
document and store each chapter in a dedicated file.

[snip]

Best regards,

Vincent

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