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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>HTML Xref (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="HTML Xref (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="HTML Xref (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Generating-HTML.html" rel="up" title="Generating HTML"> <link href="_0040documentdescription.html" rel="next" title="@documentdescription"> <link href="HTML-CSS.html" rel="prev" title="HTML CSS"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="HTML-Xref"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040documentdescription.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@documentdescription</code>: Summary Text</a>, Previous: <a href="HTML-CSS.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">HTML CSS</a>, Up: <a href="Generating-HTML.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Generating HTML</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="HTML-Cross_002dreferences"></span><h3 class="section">21.4 HTML Cross-references</h3> <span id="index-HTML-cross_002dreferences"></span> <span id="index-Cross_002dreferences_002c-in-HTML-output"></span> <p>Cross-references between Texinfo manuals in HTML format become, in the end, a standard HTML <code><a></code> link, but the details are unfortunately complex. This section describes the algorithm used in detail, so that Texinfo can cooperate with other programs, such as <code>texi2html</code>, by writing mutually compatible HTML files. </p> <p>This algorithm may or may not be used for links <em>within</em> HTML output for a Texinfo file. Since no issues of compatibility arise in such cases, we do not need to specify this. </p> <p>We try to support references to such “external” manuals in both monolithic and split forms. A <em>monolithic</em> (mono) manual is entirely contained in one file, and a <em>split</em> manual has a file for each node. (See <a href="HTML-Splitting.html">HTML Splitting</a>.) </p> <span id="index-Dumas_002c-Patrice-1"></span> <p>The algorithm was primarily devised by Patrice Dumas in 2003–04. </p> <ul class="section-toc"> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-Link-Basics.html" accesskey="1">HTML Cross-reference Link Basics</a></li> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-Node-Name-Expansion.html" accesskey="2">HTML Cross-reference Node Name Expansion</a></li> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-Command-Expansion.html" accesskey="3">HTML Cross-reference Command Expansion</a></li> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-8_002dbit-Character-Expansion.html" accesskey="4">HTML Cross-reference 8-bit Character Expansion</a></li> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-Mismatch.html" accesskey="5">HTML Cross-reference Mismatch</a></li> <li><a href="HTML-Xref-Configuration.html" accesskey="6">HTML Cross-reference Configuration: <samp>htmlxref.cnf</samp></a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>