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+<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+
+]>
+
+<section id="sn-opening-a-session">
+  <title>Opening a Session</title>
+  <para>
+    You can open a session by either
+  </para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        Choose <menuchoice> <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
+        <guisubmenu>Open</guisubmenu> </menuchoice> or press
+        <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>O</keycap></keycombo> and
+        then use the file selector to locate the session you want to open.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para>
+        start ardour from a command line, and specify the session folder as
+        an argument.
+      </para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>
+    When specifying a session to open you can either specify the session
+    folder or the session file. If you specify the folder, Ardour will open
+    the primary session file within the folder. If you specify a session
+    file (see <xref linkend="sn-snapshots"/>), Ardour will open that
+    particular session.
+  </para>
+
+  <section id="recent-sessions">
+    <title>Recent Sessions</title>
+    <para>
+      The <menuchoice> <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
+      <guisubmenu>Recent</guisubmenu> </menuchoice> menu item will allow you
+      to navigate directly to sessions that you have worked on recently. For
+      sessions with more than one recent session file, expand the session
+      subtree by clicking on the expansion box left of the session name.
+    </para>
+  </section>
+<!--
+	<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" 
+		href="Some_Subsection.xml" />
+	-->
+</section>