<para>If non-zero, the <sgmltag class="attribute">role</sgmltag> attribute on
<sgmltag>xref</sgmltag> will be used to select the cross reference style.
-It is likely that the <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/">DocBook
-Technical Committee</ulink> will eventually add an
+The <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/">DocBook
+Technical Committee</ulink> recently added an
<sgmltag class="attribute">xrefstyle</sgmltag> attribute for this purpose.
-Until then, this flag allows <sgmltag class="attribute">role</sgmltag> to
-serve that purpose.</para>
+If the <sgmltag class="attribute">xrefstyle</sgmltag> attribute
+is present, <sgmltag class="attribute">role</sgmltag> will be ignored, regardless
+of this setting.</para>
+<para>Until an official DocBook release that includes the new
+attribute, this flag allows <sgmltag class="attribute">role</sgmltag>
+to serve that purpose.</para>
+
+</refsect1>
+
+<refsect1><title>Example</title>
+
+<para>The following small stylesheet shows how to configure the stylesheets to make
+use of the cross reference style:</para>
+
+<programlisting><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
+ version="1.0">
+
+<xsl:import href="../xsl/html/docbook.xsl"/>
+
+<xsl:output method="html"/>
+
+<xsl:param name="local.l10n.xml" select="document('')"/>
+<l:i18n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0">
+ <l:l10n xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" language="en">
+ <l:context name="xref">
+ <l:template name="chapter" style="title" text="Chapter %n, %t"/>
+ <l:template name="chapter" text="Chapter %n"/>
+ </l:context>
+ </l:l10n>
+</l:i18n>
+
+</xsl:stylesheet>]]></programlisting>
+
+<para>With this stylesheet, the cross references in the following document:</para>
+
+<programlisting><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<book id="book"><title>Book</title>
+
+<preface>
+<title>Preface</title>
+
+<para>Normal: <xref linkend="ch1"/>.</para>
+<para>Title: <xref xrefstyle="title" linkend="ch1"/>.</para>
+
+</preface>
+
+<chapter id="ch1">
+<title>First Chapter</title>
+
+<para>Irrelevant.</para>
+
+</chapter>
+</book>]]></programlisting>
+
+<para>will appear as:</para>
+
+<informalexample>
+<para>Normal: Chapter 1.</para>
+<para>Title: Chapter 1, <emphasis>First Chapter</emphasis>.</para>
+</informalexample>
</refsect1>
+
</refentry>