Re: [docbook-apps] New Branch: website5

[Denis Bradford <denis.bradford@verizon.net>]

Dave Pawson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2010 17:31:59 -0400
> Denis Bradford <denis.bradford@verizon.net> wrote:
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>> Another example, on the Website side: why should only books and help 
>> systems have an index? It's a great navigation tool for an
>> informational web site, too. So, I hacked the Website stylesheets to
>> generate a DocBook index for the site. Not pretty XSL, but my readers
>> love the index.
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> Do you mean index or Toc Denis?
> ws has a toc facility. 
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> And since an index is available from the docbook stylesheets, which
> are utilised by ws, no reason they shouldn't be included, just
> that the wrapper should be a page not an appendix.

I do mean an index. Even though the index element is available in 
website-full, it doesn't work above the scope of a webpage.

As Bob Stayton told me:

"As it currently ships, Website can't collect index entries from the set 
of webpage documents and generate a sorted index. "

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