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Subject: Re: [dita] Indexterm: page ranges




From: Erik Hennum <ehennum@us.ibm.com>
To: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 10:35:02 -0700







Hi, Eliot and TC:


Eliot Kimber <ekimber@innodata-isogen.com> wrote on 10/04/2005 08:00:11 AM:


> ... for many authors index terms are precisely a marker indicating the

> occurrence of a specific word or phrase at a specific location.

>

> That is, while sometimes index entries are exactly as Erik states (and

> this is why they would normally generate a page range in the rendered

> index) it is not an exclusive, or necessarly even typical, use of index

> markers.


Point taken.  As the thread has noted previously, such occurrences of indexable language would be better handled as mentions delimited with <keyword> or <term> rather than with <indexterm> markers.  Instead of requiring the writer to provide the term twice as in the following example


For the proper care and feeding of an element<indexterm>element</indexterm>, you usually supply content.


the processing might make use of the inline term for the index:


For the proper care and feeding of an <term>element</term>, you usually supply content.


A mention would never span multiple pages and thus wouldn't require a range.



Thanks,



Erik Hennum

ehennum@us.ibm.com






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