Re: [dita-comment] The short description and searching

["Guy K. Haas" <guy@hiskeyboard.com>]

Thanks, Eliot--

Yes, there's search among DITA topics in a CMS, and there's search in the
delivered outputs.

But how does a search engine looking at a web page or a PDF even know that
a sequence of words IS from a shortdesc?

--Guy



On Thu, July 5, 2012 1:42 pm, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> I interpret that to mean that in a retrieval context you would give higher
> weight to matches on shortdescs than matches on content in the body or in
> nested topics.
>
> It also suggests a "find text in shortdescs" search option in a CMS or
> retrieval system.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot
>
> On 7/5/12 3:21 PM, "Guy K. Haas" <guy@hiskeyboard.com> wrote:
>
>> In this sentence from the DITA 1.2 description of shortdesc
>>
>>      The short description, which represents the purpose or theme of the
>> topic, is also intended to be used as a link preview and for
>> searching.
>>
>> what does "for searching" mean?
>>
>> I know that a <shortdesc> text is supposed to be the blurb that appears
>> in
>> a search engine's results.  But the only way I can conceive of
>> <shortdes>c
>> to "be used ... for searching" is that, when the topic is published as
>> HTML, the <shortdesc> text is output in the HTML <abstract> element
>> (unless a larger <abstract> is in the topic's metadata, in which case
>> THAT
>> is used).
>>
>> Is that what the "for searching" means?  What about other file types,
>> such
>> as PDF?
>>
>> --Thanks,
>>       Guy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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