Re: [docbook-apps] Auto-generating an index

["Thomas Schraitle" <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi Tom,

>On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 07:01, Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>...
>> Why not using a XSLT stylesheet? In that case you can just add your
>> indexterms to whatever elements you need.
>> As you have to go through it anyway, you can just add some
>> condition="noidx" as I've suggested in one of my last mails.
>
>I probably don't understand what you are doing, Tom (and xslt is
>daunting to me), it looks to me like you are transforming a word or
>short phrase that is already marked up (I assume by elements you mean
>xml tags). 

Ahh, that explains a lot. :) Yes, I've assumed you have already text
which is proberly marked up. Sorry for that.

> I'm trying to add DB markup to small chunks of long runs
>of text such as inside </para> elements.

Ok, I see. This makes it obviously more difficult. In that case, you are
hanging on step 1 whereas my method is located on step 2. ;)

Do you have text which is repeated a lot? In that case, maybe you
could split the para and search for your "expected" strings. If that's
successful you can add the needed indexterms.

Perhaps it only useful for a minority of your cases, but maybe it's
worth a try.


Tom