One
question that comes to mind is: why would you want a page range that spans one
and only one topic? For example, I pulled out my old "XML in a Nutshell" and
looked up "Arabic Unicode block". This table spans 2 pages, but is only indexed
with a page number pointing to the start of the topic. That is because the topic
is so obviously self-enclosed that a single page reference is sufficient.
What I'd say is that an indexterm in a topic prolog points to the
topic. Page range markers in a topic prolog has no meaning, since the
indexterm is out of the content flow. So index-range-start/index-range-end
should be ignored. This will allow an author to generate an index reference to a
single topic by entering an indexterm in the topic prolog.
We
can leave open the possibility that a processor may elect to treat an
indexterm in a topic prolog as a page range: for example, if that topic is
deeply nested.
Chris
From: Erik Hennum
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Hi, Paul (Grosso) and Indexing Enthusiasts:
To follow up on the index
range question, we had a fair bit of discussion about ranges last Fall. The
consensus at the time was that ranges should be set explicitly. A sample from
the thread:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/email/archives/200510/msg00020.html
I
guess my perspective remains that an indexterm in the prolog could be treated as
a special case of a general rule: that an indexterm covers the content of its
container and that processing emits a page range if the indexed container
extends to more than 2 pages.
Even so, I don't want to undo the progress
we've made:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/18917/IssueNumber45b.html
Can
we isolate any anomalies in the current indexing proposal and fix those quickly
without changing the fundamental approach?
Paul, are you aware of other
hiccups besides the requirement to index an entire topic from start of the title
through the end of the related links or the end of the nested
topics?
Chris (Wong), as the lead on the indexing proposal, do you have
any suggestions?
Hoping that's useful,
Erik
Hennum
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That said, we still need
a way to generate a range over the whole topic.
Huh? I would have thought what you just said
in the first paragraph means that an indexterm within the prolog generates a
range over the whole topic. Now I'm really confused.
