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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] indexterm with zone attribute


Hi Dick,
The other suggestions made by Thomas and Dave are the practical methods for 
getting an indexterm zone to work with DocBook XSL.  TDG does say that 
putting a reference to a single xml:id in the zone attribute should give you 
a range that matches the size of that element.  But the stylesheets have not 
implemented that, because it is hard to do with XSL-FO.  It would require 
putting an empty anchor at the end of each element that has such a 
reference, so that the second page reference can be generated by the XSL-FO 
processor.  There are lots of elements that can produce ranges of pages, and 
the templates for all those elements would have to perform that function of 
checking for such zone ranges.  That requires touching a lot of templates.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:25 PM
Subject: [docbook-apps] indexterm with zone attribute


> I've been indexing a document and am having some trouble with the zone
> attribute on indexterm.
>
> When the zone attribute points to an id on a block that extends over
> more than one page, I would expect to see a range in the output, but I
> only see the first page.  Is that the expected output or is there a
> problem somewhere?
>
> Here is a sample:
>
> <section xml:id="someid"><title>some title</title>
> ... section contents long enough to extend over
>    more than one page...
> </section>
>
> If I use this indexterm (placed inside the section, though I'm not sure
> that's relevant):
>
> <indexterm zone="someid"><primary>topic</primary></indexterm>
>
> and this section extends from page 4 to 6, I would expect the index
> entry to look like this:
>
> topic, 4-6
>
> However, instead of the range 4-6, I'm just getting the start of the
> range, like this: topic, 4
>
> Does anyone know if I should be getting a range, and if so, is there
> some parameter or other magic that I need to use to get a range?  I'm
> familiar with the other style of getting ranges in indexes, but since
> I've already got ids on the appropriate sections, I'd rather use this
> method if I can get it to work.
>
> I'm using DB 5.0, stylesheets 1.74.0, Saxon 6.5.3, fop 0.94, and the
> basic index algorithm (though the same thing happens with the Kosek
> index algorithm).
>
> Thanks,
> Dick Hamilton
> http://rlhamilton.net
>
>
>
>
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