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My cross-reference formats consist of two ancestor building blocks.
So, the in the target(place I click) it looks like "SEE FIGURE 3-
38.."

Where "3" and "-38" are collected via building blocks:
<bolditalic><$elemtext[Figure]><$elemtext[Index]>

All cross-references work ok and their formats look fine.

However, the editor will necessarily later delete all of the source 
Figure elements. This will not affect the cross-reference formats 
UNLESS they need to be regenerated--and I think this could happen.

So, would a better method be to NOT use the building blocks, but 
instead incorporate the already-existing text "3-38" (somehow) into 
the cross-reference format?

The target text is : <specpara>SEE FIGURE <xref xrefid=123> 3-38
All I want to do is automatically capture the 3-38 into a cross-ref 
format when I open the sgml file.

-Mark

ps The "already-existing" text was previously suppressed from the 
database at sgml extraction--but if necessary, I will make it 
available again for use in the format.