sort-as Q1 [was: review of index* elements]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Wong [mailto:] 
> Sent: Monday, 2006 September 25 15:40
> To: Grosso, Paul; 
> Subject: RE: [dita] review of index* elements [was: DITA 1.1 
> Language Specification -- draft (ditaref-alpha.pdf) uploaded]

> Concerning your other example:
> 
> 	
> <indexterm>$apple<index-sort-as>apple</index-sort-as></indexterm>
> 	. . .
> <indexterm>apple</indexterm>
> 
> This should always result in separate entries:
> 
> 	$apple, 3
> 	apple, 7
> 
> 
> This is because the operative phrase in index-sort-as is 
> "sort as". This
> does not mean "index as": the processor is not being told to convert
> "$apple" to "apple". If the author intended to have "apple" appear in
> the first indexterm, he should not have typed "$apple" in the 
> indexterm.

If this is what we decide and we document it that way,
I can accept this.

Note that what this potential decision is really saying
is that we are really sorting by appending the actual
indexterm value to the sort-as value.  That is, you
are really sorting the two indexterms above as
"apple-$apple" and "apple-apple".

Also note that if this is what the user really wanted,
they could have done just that in the sort-as value themselves.

paul


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 6:53 PM
> To: 
> Subject: RE: [dita] review of index* elements [was: DITA 1.1 Language
> Specification -- draft (ditaref-alpha.pdf) uploaded]

> Suppose my document contains:
> 
> <indexterm>$apple<index-sort-as>apple</index-sort-as></indexterm>
> . . .
> <indexterm>apple</indexterm>
> 
> (where . . . represents several pages of content) such that the first
> indexterm falls on page 3 and the second on page 7.
> 
> Would my generated index look something like:
> 
> 	apple, 3, 7
> 
> or
> 
> 	$apple, 3, 7
> 
> or
> 
> 	apple, 3
> 	$apple, 7
> 
> or something else?