Cross-references disappearing in PDF

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Ryhan
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Cross-references disappearing in PDF

Post by Ryhan »

Hi
Working on DITA reports for investment tracking… some cross-refs work fine, others just vanish when I rebuild the PDF. IDs are all there, mapping looks solid, but in the DITA-OT log I get warnings like:

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[WARN] Reference target not found: investment/section5/topicID
and sometimes:

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[INFO] Skipping topic 'overview' because of missing key definition
Tested on the latest DITA-OT, no change. PDF plugins in Oxygen handle the rest fine, but these flaky refs are a proper pain. Any quick tweaks to check before I go and redo all the references by hand…