I believe I wrote (at least the basis for) this wording, and I'm
afraid I agree that it is ambiguous.
What I meant for it to say is that, in your example, there would
be a page number for apple, but not for AAPL.
I was trying to contrast it to an index-see where there would be
no page number for apple. I was not trying to say that the contents
of the index-see-also element would magically be made an additional
entry in the index if it isn't otherwise made an entry via another
index-term of its own.
paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2011 April 12 8:44
> To: dita
> Subject: [dita] Clarification of implications of index-see-also
>
> The language reference entry for index-see-also says:
>
> "In addition to its "see also" redirection, an index-see-also
>
> functions as a pointwise indexterm, thereby typically generating a
>
> page reference as well as the "see also" indication."
>
> Given this index markup:
>
> <index-term>
> apple
> <index-see-also>AAPL</index-see-also>
> </index-term>
>
> Is the intent that there will be a page number reference to this
> index-term's location for both "apple" and "AAPL" or only for "apple"?
>
> There must be a page number reference for "apple" at this term's
> location,
> that is clear (because the see-also doesn't change the basic
> functioning of
> the index term as a point reference).
>
> The question is whether or not the spec is requiring an additional
> entry for
> "AAPL" at this location or if the intent is that the see-also just
> points to
> the named term?
>
> Cheers,
>
> E.
>
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