Make the second, section number argument of .Xr mandatory.

In fact, we have been requiring it for many years.
The only reason to not warn when it was missing
was excessive traditionalism - it was optional in 4.4BSD.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index bf5d9afd..a283254d 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -2714,14 +2714,13 @@ Link to another manual
 .Pq Qq cross-reference .
 Its syntax is as follows:
 .Pp
-.D1 Pf \. Sx \&Xr Ar name Op section
+.D1 Pf \. Sx \&Xr Ar name section
 .Pp
 Cross reference the
 .Ar name
 and
 .Ar section
-number of another man page;
-omitting the section number is rarely useful.
+number of another man page.
 .Pp
 Examples:
 .Dl \&.Xr mandoc 1
@@ -3033,7 +3032,7 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments.
 .It Sx \&Ux  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Va  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n
 .It Sx \&Vt  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
-.It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
+.It Sx \&Xr  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    2
 .It Sx \&br  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    0
 .It Sx \&sp  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    1
 .El