Re: [docbook-apps] db5, index processing

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:24:45 -0800
"Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:

> 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


Bug 3179611 submitted. 

DaveP


> 
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> ----- 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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