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Subject: RE: [dita] indexing question
> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] > Sent: Thursday, 2006 June 29 18:09 > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: RE: [dita] indexing question > > When an index term is defined in the prolog, > it is supposed to apply to the topic as a whole Not sure what I think of that, but it does raise the question then of what it means to put index-range-start in the prolog. You might remember I was always nervous about adding the index range business to 1.1, and now I'm even more so. We seem to have created a lot of odd possibilities the semantics of which we are going to have to define and explain carefully. I think we have some more work to do on all this indexing stuff. paul > (the same is true if it is placed in the > topicref in a > map). We've mentioned in the past that sequential topics that > include the > same term in this way could be treated as a range. I'm not > sure if we also > discussed using the entry in the prolog as a range for topics > that span > pages? I feel like somebody has mentioned it, but I could be wrong. > > Of course, this doesn't address the awkwardness of placing it in the > prolog... > > Robert D Anderson > IBM Authoring Tools Development > Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit > (507) 253-8787, T/L 553-8787 > > "JoAnn Hackos" <joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com> wrote on > 06/29/2006 05:51:27 > PM: > > > I'd like to see Indexterm as a child of topic. It feels > awkward to wait > > until prolog. > > JoAnn > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] > > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:26 PM > > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org > > Subject: [dita] indexing question > > > > Looking at the 1.1 DTDs, as far as I can tell, > > indexterm isn't allowed as a child of topic. > > In fact, the earliest indexterm is allowed > > in a topic seems to be within keywords within > > metadata within prolog. > > > > Suppose one wants to use index-range-start and > > index-range-end to index an entire topic. It > > seems the soonest one can put the index-range-start > > in a topic is within the prolog. But suppose one > > has an abstract longer than a page. Then the > > index-range-start within the prolog (which follows > > the abstract) will not pick up the first page of > > the topic. > > > > This seems to be a problem. Do we need to allow > > indexterm in title, perhaps? Is there a better > > solution? > > > > I think we are also going to have a similar problem > > at the bottom of a topic. Suppose the last thing > > in your topic is related-links. Where can you put > > the index-range-end so that you can be sure it is > > on the last page of the topic? > > > > paul > > > > >
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