<refsection><info><title>Description</title></info>
+<para>In DocBook documents that conform to a schema older than V4.3, this parameter allows
+<tag class="attribute">role</tag> to serve the purpose of specifying the cross reference style.</para>
+
<para>If non-zero, the <tag class="attribute">role</tag> attribute on
<tag>xref</tag> will be used to select the cross reference style.
-The <link xlink:href="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/">DocBook
-Technical Committee</link> recently added an
-<tag class="attribute">xrefstyle</tag> attribute for this purpose.
-If the <tag class="attribute">xrefstyle</tag> attribute
-is present, <tag class="attribute">role</tag> will be ignored, regardless
-of this setting.</para>
-
-<para>Until an official DocBook release that includes the new
-attribute, this flag allows <tag class="attribute">role</tag>
-to serve that purpose.</para>
+In DocBook V4.3, the <tag class="attribute">xrefstyle</tag> attribute was added for this purpose.
+If the <tag class="attribute">xrefstyle</tag> attribute is present,
+<tag class="attribute">role</tag> will be ignored, regardless of the setting
+of this parameter.</para>
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