Re: [docbook-apps] auto-index, HOWTO

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Stefan,
That is the behavior that Norm Walsh designed into the XSL stylesheets for 
index terms in HTML output.  It is described briefly on this page:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/IndexOutput.html

Suggestions for alternate designs in HTML output are welcome.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld@sympatico.ca>
To: "DocBook Apps Mailing List" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 9:24 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] auto-index, HOWTO


> I'm seeing unexpected behavior with automatic index generation, so I'd
> like to seek advice on how to write my document to get the behavior I 
> want.
>
> The attached document contains 4 indexterms. The final <index/> creates
> entries for all of them. However, the link is not to the anchor
> generated where the indexterm appears but the enclosing section, and the
> label is that section's title (i.e. three times the same in this case).
>
> Is this intentional ? If so, is this behavior documented somewhere ?
> (I'm using xsl-stylesheets-1.73.2)
>
> It seems that, in order to generate unique labels, I'd have to make sure
> each indexterm is enclosed by its own (unique) section...
>
> Thanks for any clarification.
>
> Stefan
>
> -- 
>
>       ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>


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> <article>
> <title>A Bug</title>
> <section>
>  <title>struct Foo</title>
>  <indexterm><primary>Foo</primary></indexterm>
>  <para>A class.</para>
>  <section>
>    <title>Public Methods</title>
>    <synopsis>Foo()</synopsis>
>    <indexterm><primary>Foo()</primary></indexterm>
>    <synopsis>~Foo()</synopsis>
>    <indexterm><primary>~Foo()</primary></indexterm>
>    <synopsis>do_something()</synopsis>
>    <indexterm><primary>do_something()</primary></indexterm>
>    <para>Do it.</para>
>  </section>
> </section>
> <index/>
> </article>
>
>


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