I want to round trip the xrefs and retain the format of a xref where the format varies on whether the xref relates to a table, chapter, another topic, etc. For example, I want to retain something like this for an xref that refers to another topic: "Overview orf Something on page 1-2 describes ..... On the other hand, I would like to vary the xref for a table, e.g., Table 40 describes ..... The objective is to retain these cross reference formats during a round trip. We are using DocBook v4.2. I was told by our engineers that this cannot be done and one can only retain one format and cannot vary it. Has anyone had any experience with this issue?
See Overview of Something on Page 1-2for your information. ...
I was told that this cannot be done because the script looks like this after it has been exported:
See <XREF ID="xxxxx"> for your information. ...
I was told the following by engineers that provided a custom plug-in:
Import/Export plug-in can't distinguish the type of referred object during importing according to engineers.
After you import the xml file it reads as follows
It’s impossible to vary cross-reference format based on referenced object types such as table, figure, things like that.
... See Overview of Something for your information. ...