> 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 the content documents, but simply defined how to
> build a "back of book index" with pointers to associated content
> (possibly id/idref pairs.) But then maybe I totally misinterpreted
> what I saw -- DocBook is one complicated markup vocabulary!

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.

Here is an article on mastering DocBook indexes [sic]:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/14/dbndx.html

Cheers,

Michael

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