Re: [docbook-apps] indexterm and FOP

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

Actually, this is something that the stylesheet can and should handle.  The 
DocBook schema does permit indexterm elements at all those levels, and the 
stylesheet should support them without the workarounds that have been 
discussed (and will make it work for you today).

There was already some code to solve this problem for the Antenna House FO 
engine, because it also could not recognize an fo:wrapper as a child of the 
fo:flow for index entries at the top level.  It required an empty fo:block 
at that level to work, as does the current FOP.  But it turns out that the 
code had a bug in it that prevented it from working properly.  I fixed that 
bug, and added "fop1.extensions" to the choose statement that uses it.  The 
next snapshot should support indexterm elements as a direct child of chapter 
and section for both Antenna House and fop 0.94.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emmanuel Bégué" <emmanuel.begue@diadeis.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:45 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] indexterm and FOP


> Hello,
>
> The docbook DTD allows the element indexterm as a direct
> child of section or chapter; however, if we do that, the
> index is correctly built by the stylesheets, but the target
> elements that are direct children of section or chapter
> (original indexterm elements) are discarded by FOP, which
> then complains of unfound references.
>
> A simple solution to this problem is to enclose indexterm
> elements with para elements: in that case the targets
> are not discarded and the index works fine.
>
> But, then there is another problem: big white spaces in
> the PDF output where the "wrapper" para elements were.
>
> So the question is:
>
> - is there a way to tell FOP to not allow white space
>  or space before / after for paragraphs that have no
>  visible content?
>
> - or, is there another "wrapper element" that can be
>  used to hold indexterm elements under sections?
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> EB
>
>
>
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