diff --git a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
index 953b24b6e2b4..acf5473002f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
+++ b/Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ RE_typedef = re.compile(r'\b(typedef)\s+([a-zA-Z_]\w+)', flags=ascii_p3)
 # Detects a reference to a documentation page of the form Documentation/... with
 # an optional extension
 #
-RE_doc = re.compile(r'\bDocumentation(/[\w\-_/]+)(\.\w+)*')
+RE_doc = re.compile(r'(\bDocumentation/)?((\.\./)*[\w\-/]+)\.(rst|txt)')
 
 RE_namespace = re.compile(r'^\s*..\s*c:namespace::\s*(\S+)\s*$')
 
@@ -234,7 +234,10 @@ def markup_doc_ref(docname, app, match):
     #
     # Go through the dance of getting an xref out of the std domain
     #
-    target = match.group(1)
+    absolute = match.group(1)
+    target = match.group(2)
+    if absolute:
+       target = "/" + target
     xref = None
     pxref = addnodes.pending_xref('', refdomain = 'std', reftype = 'doc',
                                   reftarget = target, modname = None,