Conditional text is a way to mark blocks of text meant to appear in some renditions of the document, but not in others. It differs from one variant of the document to another, while unconditional text appear in all document versions.
For instance you can mark a section of a document to be included in the manual designated for the expert users, other for the novice users manual while unmarked sections are included in any rendition.
The benefits of using conditional text include reduced effort for updating and translating your content and an easy way to customize the output for various audiences.
Oxygen XML Author plugin offers full support for DITA conditional text processing: profiling attributes can be easily managed to filter content in the published output. You can toggle between different profile sets to see how the edited content looks like before publishing.
DITA offers support for profiling/conditional text by using profiling attributes. With Oxygen XML Author plugin you can define values for the DITA profiling attributes. The profiling configuration can be shared between content authors through the project file. There is no need for coding or editing configuration files.
Several profiling attributes can be aggregated into a profiling condition set that allow you to apply more complex filters on the document content. A Profiling Condition Set is a very powerful and convenient tool used to preview the content that goes into the published output. For example, an installation manual available both in Windows and Linux variants can be profiled to highlight only the Linux procedures for more advanced users.