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							- <refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
 
-           xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
 
-           xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
 
-           xmlns:src="http://nwalsh.com/xmlns/litprog/fragment"
 
-           xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 
-           version="5.0" xml:id="prefer.internal.olink">
 
- <refmeta>
 
- <refentrytitle>prefer.internal.olink</refentrytitle>
 
- <refmiscinfo class="other" otherclass="datatype">boolean</refmiscinfo>
 
- </refmeta>
 
- <refnamediv>
 
- <refname>prefer.internal.olink</refname>
 
- <refpurpose>Prefer a local olink reference to an external reference</refpurpose>
 
- </refnamediv>
 
- <refsynopsisdiv>
 
- <src:fragment xml:id="prefer.internal.olink.frag">
 
- <xsl:param name="prefer.internal.olink" select="0"/>
 
- </src:fragment>
 
- </refsynopsisdiv>
 
- <refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
 
- <para>If you are re-using XML content modules in multiple documents,
 
- you may want to redirect some of your olinks.  This parameter
 
- permits you to redirect an olink to the current document.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>For example: you are writing documentation for a  product, 
 
- which includes 3 manuals: a little installation
 
- booklet (booklet.xml), a user 
 
- guide (user.xml), and a reference manual (reference.xml).
 
- All 3 documents begin with the same introduction section (intro.xml) that 
 
- contains a reference to the customization section (custom.xml) which is 
 
- included in both user.xml and reference.xml documents.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>How do you write the link to custom.xml in intro.xml
 
- so that it is interpreted correctly in all 3 documents?</para>
 
- <itemizedlist>
 
- <listitem><para>If you use xref, it will fail in user.xml.</para>
 
- </listitem>
 
- <listitem><para>If you use olink (pointing to reference.xml),
 
- the reference in user.xml  
 
- will point to the customization section of the reference manual, while it is 
 
- actually available in user.xml.</para>
 
- </listitem>
 
- </itemizedlist>
 
- <para>If you set the <parameter>prefer.internal.olink</parameter>
 
- parameter to a non-zero value, then the processor will
 
- first look in the olink database
 
- for the olink's <tag>targetptr</tag> attribute value
 
- in document matching the <parameter>current.docid</parameter>
 
- parameter value.  If it isn't found there, then
 
- it tries the document in the database
 
- with the <tag>targetdoc</tag>
 
- value that matches the olink's <tag>targetdoc</tag>
 
- attribute.
 
- </para>
 
- <para>This feature permits an olink reference to resolve to
 
- the current document if there is an element
 
- with an id matching the olink's <tag>targetptr</tag>
 
- value.  The current document's olink data must be
 
- included in the target database for this to work.</para>
 
- <caution>
 
- <para>There is a potential for incorrect links if
 
- the same <tag>id</tag> attribute value is used for different
 
- content in different documents.
 
- Some of your olinks may be redirected to the current document
 
- when they shouldn't be.  It is not possible to control
 
- individual olink instances.</para>
 
- </caution>
 
- </refsection>
 
- </refentry>
 
 
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