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Re: [docbook] external indexes (was: RFE 714764 - 'typed' indexes)
- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif at pinkjuice dot com>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:51:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook] external indexes (was: RFE 714764 - 'typed' indexes)
- References: <3ED1D00F.5020601@pinkjuice.com> <3ED1E047.7010702@kosek.cz>
Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Tobias Reif wrote:
>> If I ever would need more than one index for a document (let's say
>> it's a book), then I guess I could do it something like this:
>>
>> * Make no changes to the book itself.
>> * Create two or more indexing documents.
>> Each would probably be written in some custom XML lang (since the
>> mechanism is not (yet?) standardized).
>
> It is. There are Topic Maps which are perfectly suitable for such
> task.
> With XML you will probably use XTM -- XML based language for
> serialization of Topic Maps.
I know TM/XTM, and there are various other formats/languages one could use.
Though it's not clear how one would point to a single word which is not
wrapped in a tag (only with many more words); for this, something like
tagging inside the book or regexen seems to be necessary. So I wrote "I
could do it something like this" and "probably [would] be written in
some custom XML lang". I didn't say that there's no other way.
What I meant is that a mechanism for external indexes hasn't (yet) been
incorporated in or normatively referenced by the DocBook standard, and
thus some non-DocBook language (custom or not) would need to be combined
with DocBook , and thus existing DocBook tools are unlikely to support
this mechanism.
Tobi
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