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Subject: Re: [dita-comment] The short description and searching
I interpret that to mean that in a retrieval context you would give higher weight to matches on shortdescs than matches on content in the body or in nested topics. It also suggests a "find text in shortdescs" search option in a CMS or retrieval system. Cheers, Eliot On 7/5/12 3:21 PM, "Guy K. Haas" <guy@hiskeyboard.com> wrote: > In this sentence from the DITA 1.2 description of shortdesc > > The short description, which represents the purpose or theme of the > topic, is also intended to be used as a link preview and for > searching. > > what does "for searching" mean? > > I know that a <shortdesc> text is supposed to be the blurb that appears in > a search engine's results. But the only way I can conceive of <shortdes>c > to "be used ... for searching" is that, when the topic is published as > HTML, the <shortdesc> text is output in the HTML <abstract> element > (unless a larger <abstract> is in the topic's metadata, in which case THAT > is used). > > Is that what the "for searching" means? What about other file types, such > as PDF? > > --Thanks, > Guy > > > > > > -- > This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the > OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC. > > In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and > to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required > before posting. > > Subscribe: dita-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > Unsubscribe: dita-comment-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > List help: dita-comment-help@lists.oasis-open.org > List archive: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/ > Feedback License: http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > Committee: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita > Join OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org/join/ > -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect, RSI Content Solutions "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 512.554.9368 www.rsicms.com www.rsuitecms.com Book: DITA For Practitioners, from XML Press, http://xmlpress.net/publications/dita/practitioners-1/
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