Hi Yves, You can see the same behavior when running the standard DITA OT XHTML transformation on which the Webhelp transformation is based. DITA OT does not handle very well cases in which references are outside the DITA Map scope. Maybe you can get some more hints on the DITA Users list, the only option seems to be toggling the "generate.copy.outer" DITA parameter but this does not work so well also. Regards, Radu Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com On 9/6/2010 5:47 PM, Yves Barbion wrote:

Hi Radu

I have found the cause of the problem: some topics have a link to a topic which is "outside the scope of the input dita/map directory", for example:

<related-links status = "new"> <link href="../layout.xml#aw1140092"> <linktext>Layout.</linktext> </link></related-links></task>

The DITA OT then gives me this warning:

[pipeline] [DOTJ036W][WARN] The file "C:\temp\oxygen_webhelp_test\DITA\layout.xml" referenced by "C:\temp\oxygen_webhelp_test\DITA\prototype\to_create_a_task_topic.xml" is outside the scope of the input dita/map directory. If you do not want to see the warning message,please use the Ant parameter 'outer.control', and set the value as "quiet".Or,you can move the referenced file

The graphics are then put in a subfolder.

I will send Support a small prototype.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Kind regards

-- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu <http://www.scripto.nu>