RE: [dita] indexing question

["Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>]

> -----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
> >
> >
>