Understand content references in DITA and how to use them in Adobe FrameMaker.
When working with DITA in Adobe FrameMaker, you can use a content reference (<conref>) to reuse content from another DITA document. A conref is based on the DITA ID attribute assigned to the source element.
You can use direct referencing to point directly to the DITA topic (.xml file) containing the target topics or elements. Alternatively, you can use indirect referencing to point to keys defined in keyspaces. For more details, see DITA referencing.
You can create a <conref> for almost any element in the DITA element catalog. You can create a <conref> for a whole DITA <topic> to make an entire topic reusable, or just for a specific part of the topic, e.g., a single paragraph or table. You can even create a <conref> to a single <keyword>, <ph>, or <term> element to reuse and single-source even specific words like a product name. The only requirement to create a conref is that the element must have an DITA ID attribute.