Re: [dita-comment] About indexterm implementation

[Toshihiko Makita <tmakita@antenna.co.jp>]

Dear Don R. Day,

Thank you for your reply.

Pardon me to add some cases to the below location:

topicref/topicmeta/navtitle/ph/indexterm

And I will be glad if someone comment to the following question.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/26518

Best regards,


(2012/03/29 13:19), Don Day (LbyW) wrote:

Thank you, Makita-san, for commenting about possible improvements for the indexterm section of the DITA specification. The DITA TC will soon review this issue, and someone from the DITA TC will follow up with you once we understand this issue better.

Don R. Day

DITA and XML Consultant, Learning by Wrote
Co-Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee

"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

--T.S. Eliot

On 3/26/2012 8:31 PM, Toshihiko Makita wrote:

Dear DITA TC members,

I'm implementing DITA to PDF plug-in in DITA Open Toolkit. I found that
there are implementation guidelines in the 3.1.3.2.1 indexterm section
in the DITA1.2 specification. For instance there are descriptions about
topicref/tomicmeta/keywords/indexterm,
topic/topicmeta/keywords/indexterm and indexterm elements in topic/body.

However I noticed that there are another location that a author can
write indexterm elements in DITA. For instance:

bookmap/booktitle/mainbooktitle
bookmap/booktitle/booktitlealt
bookmap/bookmeta/keywords

toipic/title
topic/shortdesc,abstarct

I think the implementation should ignore indexterm elements in
bookmap/booktitle or bookmeta because they are usually outputted in the
cover of the publication and the cover usually does not has page number.

If the indexterm element exists in topic/title or
topic/shortdesc,abstract, I think they should be honored. My question is
the treatment of the ranged indexterm. If the ranged indexterm appears
in topic/title or topic/shortdesc,abstract what should I do?

<topic>
<title><ph>Sample title<indexterm start="INDEXTERM_IN_TITLE">Sample
Indexterm in title</indexterm></ph></title>
...
</topic>

If there are any implementation guidelines, please let me know. Or there
is no guidelines I think it should be written in the specification.

Regards,

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