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Subject: index-sort-as global order [was: review of index* elements]
I am about to send out an update on where I think we stand on index* elements, so I wanted first to send out my latest proposal on this one issue. > -----Original Message----- > From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgrosso@ptc.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 2006 September 20 10:49 > To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: [dita] review of index* elements [was: DITA 1.1 > Language Specification -- draft (ditaref-alpha.pdf) uploaded] > index-sort-as > ------------- > There remains lots of issues about "global sort order" > using indexterms within the prolog. For one thing, this > contradicts other decisions we made about what an indexterm > within the prolog means. Our current decision about indexterms in the prolog says: An indexterm that occurs in a topic prolog is interpreted as a point reference to the start of the title of the topic. I don't see how to reconcile this with the idea that one can use an indexterm containing an index-sort-as in the prolog to define some "global sort order". There are also many details about the global sort order concept that would need to be worked out, such as how a global sort order within the prolog of a topic that is referenced as the child of another topic that also contains a global sort order gets merged and what is the scope of the global sort order definitions. At this point, I suggest we do away with the "global sort order" concept for DITA 1.1. If and when we do define such, we should probably use different markup than the usual indexterm/index-sort-as to accomplish this. paul
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