Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Auto Index in FO stylesheets

[Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>]

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.

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