Oxygen XML Forum

Hello,

I recently upgraded to Oxygen 18 and am using DITA-OT 1.8 for now. In my validation results, I now get the following message for links that I was reusing via my content reference file, which is also embedded in the map, so I can use it for conkeyrefs as well:

Description: Topic "operator_conrefs.dita" is referenced in the DITA map as "resource-only". Any cross reference to it will result in a broken link.

So, is it true that I cannot now reuse cross-references that are in conref files embedded in my map as resource-only? This worked fine before (Oxygen 15.1).

Thanks.

Hi,

This does not affect publishing, publishing with DITA OT 1.8 works as usual, it is just an extra warning we issue when validating the DITA Map.
A message like this:

Topic "operator_conrefs.dita" is referenced in the DITA map as "resource-only". Any cross reference to it will result in a broken link.

should be issued by Oxygen when you have an xref with an href pointing to "operator_conrefs.dita" or to a subelement inside it. As the "operator_conrefs.dita" is read-only and does not appear for example in the PDF output, all links to it would be broken.
If this is not your case, maybe you could give me a small example about the places where the "operator_conrefs.dita" is referenced.

Regards,
Radu

Ok, that's good to know. Thanks for your help.