diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
index b94cb0c2e9..a6b3dccb59 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
@@ -968,8 +968,7 @@ Deinstalling ca_root_nss-3.15.1_1... done</screen>
 	<para>Check out a copy of the ports tree.  For better
 	  performance, replace
 	  <replaceable>svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org</replaceable> with a
-	  <link
-	    xlink:href="&url.books.handbook;/svn-mirrors.html">Subversion
+	  <link linkend="svn-mirrors">Subversion
 	    mirror</link> close to your geographic location:</para>
 
 	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>svn checkout https://<replaceable>svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org</replaceable>/ports/head /usr/ports</userinput></screen>