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Re: [openreader-format] "Book Indexing" markup in XML documents ?

Hi Jon,

> Any thoughts, suggestions, recommendations, criticisms? Anyone here
> know an expert I could consult with? It would not surprise me if
> someone or some group has already designed something to do this, but I
> haven't found that something yet.

This looks rather like DocBook indexing markup.

Cheers,

Michael

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Everyone, As part of the effort to develop a set of special OpenReader namespace elements which may be applied to any OR supported content document vocabulary,...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 5, 2006 1:29 am
Hi Jon, ... This looks rather like DocBook indexing markup. Cheers, Michael -- Print XML with Prince! http://www.princexml.com...	Michael Day mikeday@...	Oct 5, 2006 1:58 am
... Hmmm, maybe, I'll have to redig into DocBook. The section I looked at with regards to DocBook indexing did not appear to embed indexing information within...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 5, 2006 2:58 am
... You place <indexterm> elements through the document, then at the end place an empty <index/> element which is where the actual index will be generated. ...	Michael Day mikeday@...	Oct 5, 2006 4:54 am
... Cool! That clarifies it. It also shows I was close, although the indexing terms in DocBook are part of content, while in my example, they were attribute...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 5, 2006 5:25 am
Some limitations of the brief sample Jon provided and IIRC of DocBook (but lord knows, I am no DocBook expert): * Only provides for 1 index. * Definitionally...	Syd Bauman syd_bauman	Oct 5, 2006 7:13 pm
... Thanks! From my initial study, it appears TEI is a little more powerful at representing embedded indexing information than is DocBook. In my chats with a...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 5, 2006 9:25 pm
Please also include out-of-band indexterm entries. I've had a lot of utility from DocBook indexterm's zone attribute: ...	Peter Ring peter17ring	Oct 6, 2006 8:32 am
... Again, interesting info. The feedback I've been getting, from here and from Jon Jermey and David Ream (who is one of the top experts in the area of XML and...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 6, 2006 10:13 pm
Indexing is a hugely important type of metadata, in my opinion. I suppose that the context in which we are carrying out this discussion is mostly in regard...	rickbarry@... rickbarry1	Oct 8, 2006 5:09 am
... Rick's message reply is an outstanding summary of several issues related to indexing. What I found of most interest is looking at author-supplied indexing,...	Jon Noring jon_noring	Oct 16, 2006 5:36 pm

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