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I was previously using oxygen author v16 and have now bumped up to v20.

The way an xref's @href is inserted has changed slightly, causing my grief with an output of mine.

In v16 (in keeping with DITA 1.2), the @href syntax was href="topic.xml#id"

In v20 (in keeping with DITA 1.3, it seems) the @href syntax is href="topic.xml" without the need for the #id part.

Is there any way to make v20 fall back to the @href behavior that was present in v16?

Hi,

Sorry but there is no setting to control this behavior.
Indeed at some moment in time we took the decision to no longer add to the link reference the topic ID.
According to the specification automatically when a reference points to a DITA topic without specifying a topic ID, it points to the first topic ID in the file so the topic ID which was inserted by Oxygen in the previous link values was redundant.
If you have problems with a certain publishing format which you obtain out of the box from Oxygen please tell us, otherwise if the publishing is some customization you built maybe you can make it work with links which do not specify the topic ID.

Regards,
Radu