diff -up gtk-doc-1.11/gtkdoc-mkdb.in.index gtk-doc-1.11/gtkdoc-mkdb.in
--- gtk-doc-1.11/gtkdoc-mkdb.in.index	2008-11-06 14:01:42.000000000 -0500
+++ gtk-doc-1.11/gtkdoc-mkdb.in	2008-11-23 17:37:33.000000000 -0500
@@ -823,9 +823,9 @@ sub OutputIndex {
             $short_symbol = $symbol;
         }
 
-        my $xref = &MakeXRef ($symbol);
         my $curletter = uc(substr($short_symbol,0,1));
         my $id = $apiindex{$symbol};
+        my $xref = &MakeXRef ($id, $symbol);
         
         #print "  add symbol $symbol with $id to index in section $curletter\n";
 
@@ -2127,7 +2127,7 @@ sub CreateValidSGMLID {
     # Special case, '_' would end up as '' so we use 'gettext-macro' instead.
     if ($id eq "_") { return "gettext-macro"; }
 
-    if ($id !~ /[a-z]/) { $id .= ":CAPS" };
+    if ($id !~ /[a-z]/ && $id !~ /-CAPS$/) { $id .= ":CAPS" };
 
     $id =~ s/[_ ]/-/g;
     $id =~ s/[,\.]//g;