I had never heard Highlights described as cooked (derived object?).
For us, the Highlights section is an authored overview of the chapter.
It's a little weird to put indexterms in an overview or summary, but
not _that_ weird. An author who wrote a longish highlights section
might want to index the highlights because it has the best one-line
description of a feature.
What about the XML version -- aren't we going to have to allow
IndexTerms in Highlights there? To disallow them in XML sounds
like more trouble than it's worth.
Michael
> >Indexterms are explicitly excluded from Highlights. Anybody
> remember why?
>
> Yes. Highlights were supposed to be a cooked representation of
> topics covered in the book component - not content in themselves.
> You might have constructed Highlights by extracting all the
> section titles - as Norm's style sheet(s) do(es) [ Norm, is there
> one or many? ].
>
> So having Indexterms in Highlights would be like having Indexterms
> in Indexterms, which I hope we disallow (but I'm afraid to look
> right now).
>
> So Michael must be using them for something we didn't foresee
> (or not ...); Michael, why do you have Indexterms in Highlights?
>
> regards, Terry
