<xref>, <term>, <systemitem> and all that sort of things

[Christian Fabre <c.fabre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I have a problem with an <xref> from a <term>.  It occurs on both the
DB->HTML and DB->RTF style-sheets.

Say I have the following SGML text:

	...
	<variablelist>
	<varlistentry>
	<term id="foo"><systemitem>foo</systemitem></term>
	<listitem>...</listitem>
	</varlistentry>
	</variablelist>
	...

And in some other place a text like:

	<para><systemitem>bar</systemitem> is actually a <xref
	linkend="foo" endterm="foo">.</para>

I would expect to have the "imported" word "foo" in the refering text
to retain the typewriter font from <systemitem>.  That is that the
<xref> should not only copy the text to the destination, but also its
formating.

This is the case for instance if the <xref> refers to an id located
within a <refentrytitle> tag: the expansion of <xref> retain the
effect of <systemitem>.

But it is not the case here when referring to a <term> tags: in my
outputs, "foo" is only in italic (as for a xref to plain text) whereas
bar is in typewriter italics (as usual with systemitem).

Is there any special reason to drop the formating due to the original
<systemiytem>?

I'm wondering if it is a bug in the style-sheets or a feature.

Thanks in advance,

Christian.

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