At run time DITA2Go builds a configuration for the starting map file in your project, beginning with the most specific settings: those in any map-specific configuration file, if there is one. Next come settings in the project configuration file.
Chain of configuration templates
Next, if the map-specific configuration file includes a value for [Templates]Configs (see §39.2 Referencing configuration files and templates), settings in the referenced configuration template (and any additional templates chained to it) are applied. If the map-specific configuration file does not reference a configuration template, next come settings in any configuration template referenced by the project configuration file; then on up the chain from that template. Table 42-1 shows the precedence of settings in configuration files and templates.
A chain of configuration templates, if any, is applied to the source either from ditamap.ini (preferentially) or from the project configuration file, but not from both. In either case, settings from the templates are applied after settings from the project configuration file, which are applied after settings from the chapter configuration file. For the same setting with different values in different configuration files or templates, the value in the most specific file takes precedence. See §39.5.3 Chaining configuration templates.