Unicode soft hyphen (0x00AD) or Unicode zero-width space (0x200B), some FO
processors will be able to reasonably hyphenate long URLs.</para>
-<para>As of 28 Jan 2002, discretionary hyphens are more widely and correctly
-supported than zero-width spaces for this purpose.</para>
+<para>Note that this hyphenation process is only applied when
+the ulink element is empty and the url attribute is reused as
+the link text. It is not applied if the ulink has
+literal text content. The same applies in
+in DocBook 5, where ulink was replaced with
+link with an xlink:href attribute.</para>
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