diff --git a/src/guide/xml/changelog.xml b/src/guide/xml/changelog.xml
index 8865ca5fc..26d19d8d5 100644
--- a/src/guide/xml/changelog.xml
+++ b/src/guide/xml/changelog.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ the combination of options. See <xref linkend="verbatim-environments"/>.</para>
 the <tag class="attribute">xml:id</tag> value of a chunk will be used as the
 chunk filename.</para>
 </listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>Support <tag class="attribute">xrefstyle</tag> on <tag>link</tag>;
+fixed <link xlink:href="https://github.com/docbook/xslTNG/issues/561">#561</link>.</para>
+</listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 </section>
 
diff --git a/src/main/xslt/modules/links.xsl b/src/main/xslt/modules/links.xsl
index c161f2f4f..d3ebc997b 100644
--- a/src/main/xslt/modules/links.xsl
+++ b/src/main/xslt/modules/links.xsl
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
 </xsl:template>
   
 <xsl:function name="fp:localization-template-from-xrefstyle" as="element(l:template)">
-  <xsl:param name="xref" as="element(db:xref)"/>
+  <xsl:param name="xref" as="element()"/>
   <xsl:param name="target" as="element()"/>
 
   <xsl:variable name="content" as="item()*">
diff --git a/src/test/resources/expected/link.006.html b/src/test/resources/expected/link.006.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..366fccf2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/expected/link.006.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="no-js"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/><script>(function(H){H.className=H.className.replace(/\bno-js\b/,'js')})(document.documentElement)</script><title>Unit test: link.006</title><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/><link href="https://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rel="schema.dc"/><meta content="2011-04-22T17:02:00-06:00" name="dc.modified"/><meta content="DocBook xslTNG" name="generator"/><link href="./css/docbook.css" rel="stylesheet" media="screen"/></head><body class="home"><nav class="top"></nav><main><article id="article" class="article component"><header><h1>Unit test: link.006</h1></header><p>Test: <a href="#article" class="xref xref-article">xrefstyle: Unit test: link.006</a>.</p><p>Test: <a href="#article" class="xref xref-article">Unit test: link.006</a>.</p><p>Test: <a href="#article" class="xref xref-article">xrefstyle: Unit test: link.006</a>.</p><p>Test: <a href="#article" class="link">link text</a>.</p></article></main><nav class="bottom"></nav></body></html>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/xml/link.006.xml b/src/test/resources/xml/link.006.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04b38dfa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/xml/link.006.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+         xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+         version="5.0" xml:id="article">
+<title>Unit test: link.006</title>
+
+<para>Test: <xref xrefstyle="xrefstyle: %c" linkend="article"/>.</para>
+
+<para>Test: <link linkend="article"/>.</para>
+
+<para>Test: <link xrefstyle="xrefstyle: %c" linkend="article"/>.</para>
+
+<para>Test: <link xrefstyle="xrefstyle: %c" linkend="article">link text</link>.</para>
+
+</article>
