Mike,

If I know what specific page number I want a link to take me to (ie page 2), how could i do this in prince?

Tried adding href='#page=2' with no luck. Is there some sort of referential 'self' or 'this' that i can use?

I dont have node elements i can point to as I am only creating the index in prince, and then merging other pdf documents for the body.

You can only do this by linking to an actual PDF file by name and using the page parameter, eg.

href="myfile.pdf?page=2"

It may be difficult to convert this to the expected internal link with your merge tool.