-----Original Message----- From: Grosso, Paul [mailto:pgro...@ptc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:26 PM To: di...@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [dita] indexing question

Looking at the 1.1 DTDs, as far as I can tell, indexterm isn't allowed as a child of topic. In fact, the earliest indexterm is allowed in a topic seems to be within keywords within metadata within prolog.

Suppose one wants to use index-range-start and index-range-end to index an entire topic. It seems the soonest one can put the index-range-start in a topic is within the prolog. But suppose one has an abstract longer than a page. Then the index-range-start within the prolog (which follows the abstract) will not pick up the first page of the topic.

This seems to be a problem. Do we need to allow indexterm in title, perhaps? Is there a better solution?

I think we are also going to have a similar problem at the bottom of a topic. Suppose the last thing in your topic is related-links. Where can you put the index-range-end so that you can be sure it is on the last page of the topic?