HTML Indexes - A Solution

[Simon Kennedy <stonewolfsoft@yahoo.co.uk>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Simon Kennedy wrote:
>   
>> > Can anybody with knowledge of the HTML autoidx.xsl code give me a quick
>> > overview of the steps the stylesheet goes through to produce the index.
>> > I'm trying to get my head around the code and I feel like the answers
>> > within reach but at the same time a long way away.
>>
>> > I'm looking to create a template which returns a string containing the 
>> > initial letters of all the index terms.
>>
>>
>>
>> > This string will be used to produce an alphabetical list with links to 
>> > indexdivs (I've already added some code to output an html anchor before 
>> > each indexdiv). The idea is to only produce links for those indexdivs 
>> > which have items under them and have a list of links at the top of the 
>> > page to go to the correct indexdiv.
>>
>>
>>     
> First part of the following article describes some parts of autoidx.xsl
> code:
>
> http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/77/xslindex.html
>
>   
Thanks Jirka,

That helped a little, the templates still seem confusing but I have come 
up with a solution to my idea by using trial and error.

For anybody that may want to do the same you can see an example of the 
output here

http://www.sffjunkie.co.uk/beos/BeBook/ClassIndex.html

And the xsl used to produce it here

http://www.sffjunkie.co.uk/docbook/docbook_xhtml_index.xsl

(I have included comments to the code I've added)

Regards
Simon Kennedy



	
	
		
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