[xindy] Comparison of makeindex and xindy

[Thore O. <t.o...@tu...>]

Hi,

another posting...
does anyone have an idea or can tell me more or less objectively which
is the advantage of xindy over makeindex?
Or, why should I use xindy, which is not as well documented (I just
speak about WWW-contents, not the delivered information inside the
packages!) as makeindex?
And where can I find newer information as the only book I could find in
a META search engine (or is it such a good reference that no one wants
to publish more about?!?):

Braune, Klaus - ISBN 3-920993-81-0 - published 1998

Some links of the specific meta search engine (which looked like "good"
links with lots of information) does not exist anymore:

http://www.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/xindy/
http://gemini.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/xindy/

I will be very happy to any comments/answers!

Best regards,

Thore