RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Extra Spaces Caused by <indexterm>s

[Peter Ring <pri@magnus.dk>]

If it makes sense to attach the indexterms to an element with an id (rather
than just a specific position in mixed content), you can have your
indexterms out-of-line. For each indexterm, refer to appropriate target
elements via the zone attribute, like this:

  <indexterm zone="some-id another-id"> 
    <primary>Some term</primary> 
    <secondary>what I meant was</secondary> 
    <tertiary>to be precise</tertiary> 
  </indexterm> 

It might actually be easier to maintain you index this way. In my case, the
index is maintained by another person than the authors. The DocBook xml or
sgml doesn't even have to be the primary storage or exchange format.

Kind regards,
Peter Ring


-----Original Message-----
From: David Cramer [mailto:dcramer@broadjump.com]
Sent: 4. april 2002 22:14
To: Norman Walsh; Jeffrey Oldham
Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Re: Extra Spaces Caused by <indexterm>s


I'm sure there's something flawed about this idea, but what if there
were an <indextermset> element in the DTD that you could use to wrap a
series of indexterm inside a para? Then when you process the para for
presentation, you could strip out that entire <indextermset> and any
spaces between its children. 

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: Jeffrey Oldham
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Extra Spaces Caused by <indexterm>s

> 
> Unfortunately, the only way to avoid this problem is either to put the
> indexterms between paragraphs (which is logically wrong) or to make
> sure that you don't introduce extra spaces with your index terms:
>