Okay, I found the solution myself: Need to specify \startxtable[split=repeat]
or else.
It’s actually a bit surprising that the value of the “outer” enivornment
(placetable) depends on the settings in the inner one (xtable). I speculate
this might be because the order of the tables might be
Hi,
I would like to reference a table of the following structure.
\starttext
\startplacetable[reference=tab1,title={A table},location=split]
\startxtable
\startxrow
\startxcell hi \stopxcell
\stopxrow
\stopxtable
\stopplacetable
In Table \in[tab1]
\stoptext
It has [location=split], which I
