Re: [docbook-apps] db5, index processing

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Dave,
Currently the itermset element is not processed by the stylesheet. The reason you see 
an entry in the index is because the template that builds the index uses 
select="//indexterm" to locate all indexterms in the document, regardless of their 
location inside any element.  The problem is that because itermset is not processed, 
there is no anchor placed in the output for its indexterms.  You get an index entry, 
but there is no where for it to go, because there is no anchor placed in the FO or 
HTML output.  So you get an index entry with no page number.

This seems to be an unfinished part of the stylesheets.  Could you please file a bug 
report on the SourceForge bug tracker to add support for itermset.

I think info/itermset/indexterm elements without a zone attribute are a bit ambiguous. 
The metadata for an element does not have a specific location in the output (a page in 
PDF output).  Usually metadata is presented at the start of the element, but that is a 
convention that is not defined for itermset. TDG says indexterm elements in itermset 
should have a zone attribute to identify which content (and pages) it applies to.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 1:31 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] db5, index processing


>
> running a book through db5 to xsl-fo.
>
> Input has info/itermset to hold a couple of index terms.
>
> xep shouts that
> [error] no entries for index key 'xxxx' where xxx is content of the
> primary child of indexterm.
>
> The entry is there in the output PDF, but I find it odd that xep is
> complaining?
>
> Is it just that there is no text in the fo to which it should (normally)
> refer?
>
> Just wanted to confirm the processing is as expected.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> regards
>
> -- 
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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