I am having an issue getting conref to work in a virtual directory structure. Using conref="../../mydirectory/filename.xml#id" doesn't work but when using the fully qualified path: conref="file:///K:/maindirectory/mydirectory/filename.xml#id" works perfectly. Is there a trick to getting virtual directory structures working? It looks like Oxygen is looking on the C: drive gives the following error message: Error while parsing external reference: 'file:/mydirectory/filename.xml#id. Cause: C:\mydirectory\filename.xml (The system cannot find the path specified) I feel like this is probably a simple configuration in Oxygen. TIA! Betty /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | harvey@eccnet.com | Washington,DC XML Users Grp URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ Member of XML Guild (www.xmlguild.org)