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<metadata>
<keywords>
<indexterm start="acct">accounting</indexterm>
<ph rev="review-chenier">&lt;indexterm end="acct">accounting&lt;/indexterm></ph>
<ph rev="review-dave-alvin">&lt;indexterm end="acct"/></ph>
&lt;/keywords>
&lt;/metadata>
&lt;/prolog>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
<concept id="example-index-range-in-a-single-topic">
<title>Example: Index range defined in a single topic</title>
<shortdesc>In this scenario, an index range is defined directly in the
body of a
topic.<!-- This strategy is useful for lengthy topics.--></shortdesc>
<conbody>
<p>In the following code sample, the index range begins at the
start of the second paragraph and continues to the beginning of the
last
paragraph.<!-- If the end element was not present, the index range would end at the end of the topic.--></p>
<!--<draft-comment author="Eliot Kimber" time="09 August 2019"><p>Again, I don't think the boundary rule is necessary or appropriate.</p></draft-comment>-->
<codeblock>&lt;topic id="accounting">
<title>Example: Index range defined in a single topic</title>
<shortdesc>In this scenario, an index range is defined directly in the
body of a topic.</shortdesc>
<conbody>
<p>In the following code sample, the index range begins at the start of
the second paragraph and continues to the beginning of the last
paragraph.</p>
<codeblock>&lt;topic id="accounting">
&lt;title>Accounting regulations&lt;/title>
&lt;body>
&lt;p>Be ethical in your accounting.&lt;/p>
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&lt;/body>
&lt;!-- Potential sub-topics -->
&lt;/topic></codeblock>
</conbody>
</conbody>
</concept>
20 changes: 11 additions & 9 deletions specification/archSpec/base/index-elements.dita
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<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
<concept id="index-elements">
<title>Index elements</title>
<shortdesc>The content of <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements
provides the text for the entries in <ph rev="review-chenier">an
index</ph>. <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements can be nested
to create <ph rev="review-chenier">additional levels of indexing, such
as</ph> secondary and tertiary index entries. </shortdesc>
<shortdesc>The <ph rev="review-dave-alvin">contents</ph> of
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements provides the text for the
entries in <ph rev="review-chenier">an index</ph>.
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements can be nested to create
<ph rev="review-chenier">additional levels of indexing, such as</ph>
secondary and tertiary index entries. </shortdesc>
<prolog>
<metadata>
<keywords>
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<dlentry>
<dt><xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement></dt>
<dd><ph rev="review-chenier">Defines a term or subject that
can contribute to an index.</ph> The <xmlatt>start</xmlatt> and
<xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attributes on the
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element specify index
ranges.</dd>
can contribute to an index.</ph>
<ph rev="review-dave-alvin">Matching values of
<xmlatt>start</xmlatt> and <xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attributes on
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements can specify an
index range.</ph></dd>
</dlentry>
<dlentry>
<dt><xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement></dt>
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64 changes: 36 additions & 28 deletions specification/archSpec/base/index-overview.dita
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
<topic id="indexoverview" rev="review-chenier">
<title>Index overview</title>
<shortdesc>DITA provides several elements to enable indexing. Whether and how an index is
rendered will vary based on implementation decisions and rendering formats.</shortdesc>
<body>
<topic id="indexoverview">
<title>Index overview</title>
<shortdesc>DITA provides several elements to enable indexing. Whether and
how an index is rendered will vary based on implementation decisions
and rendering formats.</shortdesc>
<body>
<p>Here are some definitions:</p>
<ul>
<li>An <term>index</term> is a mapping from
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements to locations in the
DITA content.</li>
<li>A <term>generated index</term> is a mapping of index terms to rendered locations.</li>
<li>A <term>generated index</term> is a mapping of index terms to
rendered locations.</li>
</ul>
<p>While DITA provides several elements that support indexing, how those elements are used
will vary by implementation.</p>
<ul>
<p>While DITA provides several elements that support indexing, how
those elements are used will vary by implementation.</p>
<ul>
<li>A publishing format like PDF might use a back-of-the-book style
index with page numbers, which typically involves merging index
elements and rendering with page numbers.</li>
<li>Another publishing format might have no rendered index at all,
but instead use the index element content to help weight search
results.</li>
elements and <ph rev="review-dave-alvin">generating</ph> page
numbers.</li>
<li>Another publishing format might have no rendered index, but it
would instead use the content of index elements to help weight
search results.</li>
<li>Some implementations might choose to supplement a generated index
with additional content, such as treating a specialized
<xmlelement>keyword</xmlelement> element as both normal content
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cases, based on either implementation capabilities or style
preferences.</li>
</ul>
<p>While DITA itself defines markup for indexing and specifies
exactly what point an <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> refers to,
it cannot force DITA documents to use consistent patterns that work
for all formats. Implementations should consider what edge cases are
relevant and how to treat them when rendering.</p>
<p>The following list includes some of the conditions that
<p>While DITA defines markup for indexing and specifies exactly the
point to which an <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> refers, it
cannot force DITA documents to use consistent patterns that work for
all formats. Implementations <ph rev="review-dave-alvin">should
consider edge cases and how to treat them.</ph></p>
<p>The following list includes some of the conditions that
implementations might want to be aware of when considering how to
generate an index:<ul>
<li>Index processors typically ignore leading or trailing
whitespace characters.</li>
<li>Index processors typically ignore leading <ph
rev="review-dave-alvin">and</ph> trailing whitespace
characters.</li>
<li>Processors might want to treat two entries separately if they
are defined with different cases.</li>
are defined with different <ph rev="review-dave-alvin"
>capitalization</ph>.</li>
<li>Processors need to determine how to handle nested markup, such
as <xmlelement>keyword</xmlelement>, within an index entry.</li>
as an <xmlelement>keyword</xmlelement>
<ph rev="review-dave-alvin">element that is located within an
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element.</ph></li>
<li>Because <xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement> is used to refer to
a term that is used <i>instead of</i> the current entry,
processors should consider how to handle a case where an index
term is used both as a page locator and with an
<xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement> for redirection.</li>
<li>Similarly, processors should consider how to handle a case
where an index term is defined with both an
<xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement> and an
<xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement>
<ph rev="review-dave-alvin">element</ph> for redirection.</li>
<li>Similarly, processors should consider how to handle <ph
rev="review-dave-alvin">the</ph> case where an index term is
defined with both an <xmlelement>index-see</xmlelement> and an
<xmlelement>index-see-also</xmlelement> element.</li>
</ul></p>
</body>
</body>
</topic>
15 changes: 10 additions & 5 deletions specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita
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<concept id="index-ranges">
<title>Index ranges</title>
<shortdesc>Authors can use the <xmlatt>start</xmlatt> and
<xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attributes on <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement>
elements to index <ph rev="review-chenier">an extended discussion</ph>.
<ph rev="review-chenier">The generated index entry reflects the span
<xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attributes on <ph rev="review-dave-alvin">a pair
of</ph>
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements to index <ph
rev="review-chenier">an extended discussion</ph>. <ph
rev="review-chenier">The generated index entry reflects the span
between the two <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements </ph>. </shortdesc>
<prolog>
<metadata>
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<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> with a <xmlatt>start</xmlatt>
attribute. <ph rev="review-1">This is called a <term
rev="review-chenier">start-of-range element</term>.</ph></p>
<p rev="review-chenier">The end of an index range is indicated by an
<p>The end of an index range is indicated by an
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element with an
<xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attribute with a value that matches the
<xmlatt>start</xmlatt> attribute on the start element. <ph
rev="review-1">This is called an <term rev="review-chenier"
>end-of-range element</term>.</ph></p>
>end-of-range element</term>.</ph>
<ph rev="review-dave-alvin">End-of-range element should contain no
content or nested elements.</ph>
</p>
<p rev="review-chenier">The location of the
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements determines how the span
is defined:</p>
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<!DOCTYPE concept PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
<concept xml:lang="en-us" id="indexes">
<title>Indexes</title>
<shortdesc>Processors can generate an index from the content of indexing elements.</shortdesc>
<conbody/>
<shortdesc>Processors can generate <ph rev="review-dave-alvin"
>indexes</ph> from the content of indexing elements.</shortdesc>
</concept>
1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion specification/archSpec/base/indexes.ditamap
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<topicref href="index-ranges.dita"/>
<topicref href="index-sorting.dita"/>
<topicref href="examples-indexing.dita">
<topicref href="example-of-nested-indexterm-elements.dita"/>
<topicref href="example-index-range-in-a-single-topic.dita"/>
<topicref href="example-index-range-defined-in-a-topic-prolog.dita"/>
<topicref href="example-index-range-defined-in-a-map.dita"/>
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</dlentry>
<dlentry rev="review-1">
<dt>Anywhere else in a DITA topic</dt>
<dd>An <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element that is located in a topic (and
not the topic prolog) is a point reference to the location where the
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element occurs.</dd>
<dd>An <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element that is
located in a topic (and not <ph rev="review-dave-alvin">in</ph>
the topic prolog) is a point reference to the location where the
<xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element occurs.</dd>
</dlentry>
<dlentry>
<dt>DITA maps</dt>
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<subjectdef keys="review-t"/>
<subjectdef keys="review-aretha"/>
<subjectdef keys="review-chenier"/>
<subjectdef keys="review-dave-alvin"/>
<subjectdef keys="2.0"/>
<subjectdef keys="tc-review"/>
<subjectdef keys="rendering">
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<revprop action="flag" color="red" val="review-r"/>
<revprop action="flag" color="red" val="review-s"/>
<revprop action="flag" color="red" val="review-chenier"/>

<revprop action="flag" color="red" val="review-dave-alvin"/>
</val>

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