[dapper] xreflabel considered harmful

[Jordan Mantha]

On 4/15/06, Rocco Stanzione <grasshopper at linuxkungfu.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 April 2006 12:25, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> > Hmm, so what do we use to replace xreflabel? Is there an alternate way
> > of specifing the text of the link? If we just take it out completely
> > I'll need to adjust the packaging guide so that the text makes sense.
>
> There are other ways of doing it.  Simply removing xreflabels will have
> unintended effects on crossreferenced links, so that's not the solution.
> Please see the "Processing expectations" section here:
>
> http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/xref.html

Thanks for the link Rocco, but I'm still confused (sorry guys). It
looks like I could replace xreflabel with <titleabbrev
id="X">text</titleabbrev> and use endterm="X" in the xref tag. My
question is if that is any better for translation. I would think it
would be because the text isn't within a tag.

-Jordan