xlink: show embed

I'm confused about the attribute xlink:show
and the option embed. On one hand, the xlink:show attribute appears

to describe what should happen when
you click the link in the built document (e.g., when you click the link,
a new window should open, etc.,).

And yet on the other hand, the embed
option suggests transclusion (http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/). 

If you had a guilabel, that used the
xlink:href attribute along with xlink:show="embed", does this
mean that the guilabel element would

be replaced by the element that it is
pointing to? 

Thank you,

Kate

xlink:show

Identifies the XLink show behavior of the link.

new

An application traversing to the ending resource should
load it in a new window, frame, pane, or other relevant presentation context.

replace

An application traversing to the ending resource should
load the resource in the same window, frame, pane, or other relevant presentation
context in which the starting resource was loaded.

embed

An application traversing to the ending resource should
load its presentation in place of the presentation of the starting resource.

other

The behavior of an application traversing to the ending
resource is unconstrained by XLink. The application should look for other
markup present in the link to determine the appropriate behavior.

none

The behavior of an application traversing to the ending
resource is unconstrained by this specification. No other markup is present
to help the application determine the appropriate behavior.

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