DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Auto Index in FO stylesheets

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

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/ Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com> was heard to say:
| On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:26:20PM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote:
|> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:46:47PM -0500, Jeff Beal wrote:
|> > I just tried to automatically generate an index at the end of a book using
|> > the DocBook 1.57.0 stylesheets and XEP.  I found that the generate.index
|> > parameter did nothing unless I had an empty <index/> tag at the end of the
|> > book, and that the index then contained the index for the entire set.
|
| I just checked in the changes to fix this problem.
| Now an automatically generated index uses only those
| indexterms that are ancestors of the empty index element's
| parent.  So a setindex will have indexterms from the
| whole set, while each book's index will have only entries
| for that book.  You can have indexes per chapter
| or section, if you want.

What about the case where I have a book in <part>s?

I tinkered with this code a bit (and added support for setindex in the
FO case) so that <index> always indexes the book it's in. Setindex
always indexes the *whole* document.

I just don't think indexing from the parent of index makes much sense
and it completely breaks for books that have parts.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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