diff --git a/doc/config-reference/compute/samples/cells-resp.json b/doc/config-reference/compute/samples/cells-resp.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8cd718a1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/config-reference/compute/samples/cells-resp.json
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{
+    "parent": {
+        "name": "parent",
+        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
+        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit.example.com",
+        "weight_offset": 0.0,
+        "weight_scale": 1.0,
+        "is_parent": true,
+    },
+    "cell1": {
+        "name": "cell1",
+        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
+        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit1.example.com",
+        "weight_offset": 0.0,
+        "weight_scale": 1.0,
+        "is_parent": false,
+    },
+    "cell2": {
+        "name": "cell2",
+        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
+        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit2.example.com",
+        "weight_offset": 0.0,
+        "weight_scale": 1.0,
+        "is_parent": false,
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-cells.xml b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-cells.xml
index 188f0d94cc..96853f9194 100644
--- a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-cells.xml
+++ b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-cells.xml
@@ -252,32 +252,7 @@ rabbit_virtual_host=cell1_vhost</programlisting></para>
             <programlisting>
 rabbit://&lt;username>:&lt;password>@&lt;hostname>:&lt;port>/&lt;virtual_host>
             </programlisting>
-        <para>The scheme may be either 'rabbit' (shown above) or 'qpid'. The following sample shows this optional configuration:</para>
-        <programlisting language="json">{
-    "parent": {
-        "name": "parent",
-        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
-        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit.example.com",
-        "weight_offset": 0.0,
-        "weight_scale": 1.0,
-        "is_parent": true,
-    },
-    "cell1": {
-        "name": "cell1",
-        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
-        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit1.example.com",
-        "weight_offset": 0.0,
-        "weight_scale": 1.0,
-        "is_parent": false,
-    },
-    "cell2": {
-        "name": "cell2",
-        "api_url": "http://api.example.com:8774",
-        "transport_url": "rabbit://rabbit2.example.com",
-        "weight_offset": 0.0,
-        "weight_scale": 1.0,
-        "is_parent": false,
-    }
-}</programlisting>
+        <para>The scheme can be either <literal>qpid</literal> or <literal>rabbit</literal>, as shown previously. The following sample shows this optional configuration:</para>
+        <programlisting language="json"><xi:include href="samples/cells-resp.json" parse="text"/></programlisting>
     </section>
 </section>