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Subject: RE: [dita] indexing question
Yes,
The Translation TC is worried about how this will be handled. As I understand it, we would need to treat an indexterm in the prolog differently than an indexterm in a block or inline element. We would treat the indexterm in the prolog as a “breaking” element and the indexterm in the text as a subflow.
We are very concerned that different people would be translating each index element and would not know its context in a single topic.
JoAnn
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From: Esrig, Bruce (Bruce) [mailto:esrig@lucent.com] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 4:34 PM To: JoAnn Hackos; Chris Wong; Erik Hennum; Grosso, Paul Cc: dita@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [dita] indexing question
Hmm ... first thoughts ...
If there is a mismatch, then no index entry would be generated. Such errors could be found during proofing or acceptance of a translated text by comparing the pre- and post-translation indexes after the translation is done and the topics are reassembled.
> Index entries using <keyword> should be processed as index terms referring to the beginning of the referenced topic.
Even though the metadata is not above the title and shortdesc, if by some change the title and shortdesc are alone on a page, the index entry should point to the page containing the title or (in scrolling environments) should like to an anchor that causes the title to be displayed at the top of the page.
> If you want an index term to span a group of topics ... Question: Is this allowed at all?
Yes. Is "do not do this" feedback from the translation SC?
Best wishes,
Bruce
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