Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

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

>  Locators like those in pdfs generated via FO are ideal.

 

Can you give an example of what those locators would look like in the context of HTML and ePub, which have no fixed page numbers?

 

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

From: Pc Thoms

Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:00 PM

To: Jirka Kosek

Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Generating e-pub and html indexes

Thanks for the link:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.links.to.section.html

Changing the parameter to 0 links the <indexentry/> directly to the appropriate point in the text.

Can the generated index linked be changed to reflect the paragraph/line number, or something other than the chapter/section title.

Locators like those in pdfs generated via FO are ideal. 

I am aware that the index.prefer.titleabbrev can also be set to 1, or the default 0, but this is not desire-able in the documents at hand.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Pc Thoms <pcthoms@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Jirka

Now I know where to change a parameter.

I'll give that a go.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

On 18.7.2013 13:51, Pc Thoms wrote:

> However, rendering to e-pub and html it is not as specific, pointing to the
> beginning of a chapter/section.

As HTML doesn't use page numbers you need another anchor -- only
sensible anchor with a label is the closest section with the title.

> Is there a way to generate an index for e-pub and html that will generate
> an index like the PDF output?

Yes, just set the following parameter to 0:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.links.to.section.html

> Every <indexterm/> used is given a unique xml:id.

You don't even need to manually assign IDs for this, they can be
autogenerated.

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