Hi
Joanne,
Here's an attempt to answer your
question.
The
indexterm is allowed in metadata at the top of the topic.
It is more appropriate as topic metadata
than an insert in the title that is intended to apply to the entire topic. The
chain of elements is:
<topic>
<prolog>
<metadata>
<keywords>
<indexterm>
Best
wishes,
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: JoAnn Hackos
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2006 11:16 AM
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Subject: FW:
[dita] Index question
It would also be
helpful to put an <indexterm> in a short description - you can't do that
either.
Jen
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From: JoAnn Hackos
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Sent: Wednesday, March 15,
2006 9:13 AM
To: Michael Priestley; Chris Wong
Cc:
Subject: [dita] Index
question
Micheal and Chris,
My staff just told me that they cannot add
an <indexterm> tag to a title. In most indexing best practices, you do
include index tags at the title level to point a reader to an entire topic. Is
there a reason that an <indexterm> tag is not allowed in a topic title?
Can we include it there? Why is <indexterm> not a universal attribute?
It would also be useful to place an index tag at the beginning of a property
list or table.
JoAnn
JoAnn T. Hackos, PhD
President
Comtech Services,
Inc.
710 Kipling Street, Suite 400
Denver, CO 80215
303-232-7586
http://www.comtech-serv.com
Skype joannhackos
