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Posted: **Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:01 am**

I have this concept that I was able to construct in oXygen:


<concept id="concept_urm_4ml_2l">

 <title>Concept title</title>

 <conbody>

	<section id="section_wpx_4ml_2l">

		<p id="p_yff_pml_2l">Concept definition.</p>

	</section>

	<section conref="#concept_urm_4ml_2l/section_wpx_4ml_2l" id="section_eml_rml_2l">

		<p>This paragraph is dropped.</p>

	</section>

 </conbody>

</concept>

The second section is just conref'ing the first section but has an additional paragraph. oXygen allows me to add the paragraph to the second section, but when I generate HTML or PDF the second paragraph is dropped. So is the second section legal DITA?

Posted: **Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:51 am**

Hi,

So is the second section legal DITA?

Yes, it is legal. And no, the paragraph inside the <section> will not appear in the published output.

According to the specs:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os ... fattribute

When using the conref attribute on an element, the content of that element is ignored.

So the content of the section is not appended to the content of the conreffed section.
But you can probably make it work like:

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 <section id="section_eml_rml_2l">

        <section conref="#concept_urm_4ml_2l/section_wpx_4ml_2l" />

        <p>This paragraph is dropped.</p>

   </section>

Regards,
Radu

Posted: **Fri Aug 16, 2013 7:52 pm**

Thank you for the reference to the spec. The proposed workaround isn't valid DITA because you can't nest a section inside another section, but this one is:

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	<section id="section_wpx_4ml_2l">

		<p id="p_yff_pml_2l">Concept definition.</p>

	</section>

	<section conref="#concept_urm_4ml_2l/section_wpx_4ml_2l" id="section_eml_rml_2l"/>

	<section><p>This paragraph is dropped.</p></section>

Posted: **Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:08 pm**

Hi,

Right, sorry,l should have checked if sections can nest.
Indeed you can add more content in a section after the one which makes the conref.

Regards,
Radu

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