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<xsl:param name="make.index.markup" select="0"></xsl:param>
</pre></div><div class="refsection"><a name="d0e12181"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>This parameter enables a very neat trick for getting properly
merged, collated back-of-the-book indexes. G. Ken Holman suggested
this trick at Extreme Markup Languages 2002 and I'm indebted to him
for it.</p><p>Jeni Tennison's excellent code in
<code class="filename">autoidx.xsl</code> does a great job of merging and
sorting <code class="sgmltag-element">indexterm</code>s in the document and building a
back-of-the-book index. However, there's one thing that it cannot
reasonably be expected to do: merge page numbers into ranges. (I would
not have thought that it could collate and suppress duplicate page
numbers, but in fact it appears to manage that task somehow.)</p><p>Ken's trick is to produce a document in which the index at the
back of the book is <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">displayed</span>”</span> in XML. Because the index
is generated by the FO processor, all of the page numbers have been resolved.
It's a bit hard to explain, but what it boils down to is that instead of having
an index at the back of the book that looks like this:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p><b>A. </b>ap1, 1, 2, 3</p></blockquote></div><p>you get one that looks like this:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><pre class="programlisting"><indexdiv>A</indexdiv>
<indexentry>
<primaryie>ap1</primaryie>,
<phrase role="pageno">1</phrase>,
<phrase role="pageno">2</phrase>,
<phrase role="pageno">3</phrase>
</indexentry></pre></blockquote></div><p>After building a PDF file with this sort of odd-looking index, you can
extract the text from the PDF file and the result is a proper index expressed in
XML.</p><p>Now you have data that's amenable to processing and a simple Perl script
(such as <code class="filename">fo/pdf2index</code>) can
merge page ranges and generate a proper index.</p><p>Finally, reformat your original document using this literal index instead of
an automatically generated one and <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">bingo</span>”</span>!</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="generate.index.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="toc_index.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="index.method.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">generate.index </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> index.method</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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