Under ordinary circumstances, the xref points to some element with its linkend attribute and the processing system generates appropriate cross-reference text. There are three ways for the author to influence the generated text:

1. If the endterm attribute is specified on xref, the content of the element pointed to by endterm will be used as the text of the cross-reference.

2. Otherwise, if the object pointed to has a specified xreflabel, the content of that attribute will be used as the cross-reference text.

3. Finally, the author may specify a keyword (or other information) in the xrefstyle attribute. Unlike endterm and xreflabel which have rigid semantics, the content of the xrefstyle attribute is simply additional information for the processing system. What effect it has, if any, is dependent on the processing system.

Common attributes and common linking attributes.

any attribute

Any attribute in any other explicit namespace

endterm

Points to the element whose content is to be used as the text of the link

xrefstyle

Specifies a keyword or keywords identifying additional style information

These elements contain xref: abbrev, acronym, address, artpagenums, attribution, authorinitials, bibliocoverage, biblioid, bibliomisc, bibliomixed, bibliomset, bibliorelation, bibliosource, bridgehead, citation, citebiblioid, citetitle, city, confdates, confnum, confsponsor, conftitle, contractnum, contractsponsor, contrib, country, edition, email, emphasis (db._emphasis), emphasis (db.emphasis), entry, fax, firstname, firstterm (db._firstterm), firstterm (db.firstterm), foreignphrase (db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase (db.foreignphrase), givenname, glosssee, glossseealso, glossterm (db._glossterm), glossterm (db.glossterm), holder, honorific, inlinestagedir, issuenum, jobtitle, label, line, lineage, link, literal, literallayout, mathphrase, member, meta (db.meta.content), olink, optional, orgdiv, orgname, otheraddr, othername, pagenums, para, personname, phone, phrase (db._phrase), phrase (db.phrase), pob, postcode, primary, productname, productnumber, publishername, quote (db._quote), quote (db.quote), releaseinfo, remark, revnumber, revremark, secondary, see, seealso, seriesvolnums, shortaffil, simpara, state, street, subscript, subtitle, superscript, surname, templatename, term, termdef, tertiary, title, titleabbrev, trademark, uri, volumenum, wordasword, year.