RE: [docbook-apps] Indexterm with Umlaut rendered in the symbol division

["David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer@motive.com>]

Jirka's way is the beautiful, maintainable, and recommended way to do it. If need a short-term hack to get you buy until you upgrade your xsls tho, you can do something like this on all the <primary>s that begin with accents and get the desired results:

	<indexterm>
		<primary sortas="uzzÜbersicht">Übersicht</primary>
		<secondary>nutzen</secondary>
	</indexterm>

That will cause your xslt processor to put that term in the "U" indexdiv, sort it at the end of all the "u's", and then sort it with any other accented terms.

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 9:54 AM
> To: Thomas, Ludger
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Indexterm with Umlaut rendered in 
> the symbol division
> 
> Thomas, Ludger wrote:
> 
> > using the auto index of the fo-stylesheets (one of the 
> latest snaphshots), they are rendered in the Symbol-Division 
> of the index. If I use "Uebersicht" instead everything works 
> fine. So I guess this might be a bug in the autoidx.
> 
> Due to XSLT limitations it is impossible to generate 
> internationalized index in pure XSLT code. However if you are 
> using Saxon or Xalan you can use internationalized indexing 
> feature available in stylesheets. See:
> 
> http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/77/xslinde
> x.html#S6.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 					Jirka