> Thank you very much for the suggestion, dear Wendell.
> I will test it now.

once you have changed your source to use elements not attributes, change
the  stylesheet from 

    <xsl:value-of select="@dsc"/>

to

    <xsl:apply-templates select="@dsc"/>


Then any contained elements (such as xref) will get processed by the
normal docbook templates.

David

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