Reply To: Wrestling with Conrefs

[Derek Read]

The conref attribute must be set on an element (yes, that's pretty obvious), so in order to include a group of elements together they must be included within a parent element where the conref attribute is set. To group a number of paragraphs together you will need to wrap them in another legally allowed element and then set the conref on that element. This includes the following, which are possibly the most logical choices (though this really depends very highly on your content):

section
example
note
lq
body

There are many other elements you could use depending on the topic type and the context. To find a full list of all parent elements that can contain

right click in a

element and select “Help on Current Element”. That will open the DITA Language Reference and take you to the help for

. The “Contained by” section lists all possible parents for

.

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