Name
link — A hypertext link
Synopsis
link ::= (text | Bibliography inlines | Error inlines | Graphic inlines | GUI inlines | Indexing inlines | Keyboard inlines | Linking inlines | Markup inlines | Math inlines | Object-oriented programming inlines | Operating system inlines | Product inlines | Programming inlines | Publishing inlines | Technical inlines | Ubiquitous inlines)*
Attribute synopsis
Common attributes and common linking attributes.
Additional attributes:
endterm(IDREF)xrefstyle
Description
The link is a general-purpose hypertext
element. Usually, link surrounds the text that should
be made “hot” (unlike xref which must generate the
text), but the endterm attribute
can be used to copy text from another element.
The link can have either a
linkend attribute
or an xlink:href attribute. If it has an xlink:href attribute,
link is the equivalent of an HTML
anchor (<html:a href="...">) for
cross-reference with a Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI).
Processing expectations with linkend
Formatted inline.
If the link element has content, then that
content is processed for output as the “hot” text. If the
link element has content and an endterm attribute, then the content is
used and the endterm is ignored.
If the link element has an endterm attribute and no content, then the
content of the element pointed to by endterm should be repeated at the location
of the link and used as the “hot” text.
Processing expectations with xlink:href
Formatted inline.
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