Hi, I'm attempting something a little bit more complicated with my docbook work... My application is growing, and new commands are being added. Where a page with all the commands listed was once enough, it now seems that an index based on concepts would be useful to users, something like this:

http://tmml.sourceforge.net/doc/tcl/index.html

At the moment, I have a series of commands described like:

<variablelist> <varlistentry> <term> <cmdsynopsis> <command> var </command> <group choice="req"> <arg>get</arg> <arg>list</arg> <arg>exists</arg> <arg>number</arg> <arg>all</arg> </group> </cmdsynopsis> </term> <listitem> <para> The <command>var</command> command retrieves information about GET or POST variables sent to the script via client request. It treats both GET and POST variables the same, regardless of their origin. Note that there are two additional forms of <command>var</command>: <command>var_qs</command> and <command>var_post</command>. These two restrict the retrieval of information to parameters arriving via the querystring (?foo=bar&amp;bee=bop) or POSTing, respectively. </para>

I would like to have an index of all the commands in the list, and I'm wondering if there is any way to do that without some very heavy XSL hacking - i.e. something provided for in standard DocBook.

Incidentally, I suppose it also means that I need some markup to describe where each command should be indexed, and a 'short description' for the index. Suggestions for those?

Thanks in advance for any ideas... I've wallowed through the docs some, but don't see anything that seems to be the right fit. Hopefully, I just missed it or didn't quite see how to use it...

Thankyou,