Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Index support

[Laszlo K. <las...@Su...>]

I obviously forgot some of the stuff I wanted to mention. If we want to
implement Search later on as part of Scrollkeeper then the index support
should be done keeping in mind that it should be easily searchable later
on. If we leave the search to the browser then we dont need this.

Laszlo

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We've been talking for a while about adding index support to
> Scrollkeeper. It looks like we have the people to work on it now, Mary
> Dwyer (from Sun), John Fleck and Sasha most of the time. mary would
> probably do the development work.
> 
> I frame up my idea about how should it be done and we can discuss it.
> 
> I dont know much about index tags in DocBook/SGML so I am not sure how
> we implement this. I think there are two ways of indexing, one that just
> defines the index term and an "anchor" to where it is discussed (or
> maybe more anchors?) and the other holds the index definition itself.
> 
> Anyway I think the way it should be done is that we take the SGML file
> and extract the index info from it into a very simple xml file. Ideally
> this should contain only the index strings and the "anchor" in the text
> that is associated with them. I dont know if the SGML index tags support
> this aproach.
> 
> On the technical side I think we should use a SAX interface rather then
> a DOM tree as very little info from the SGML docs is actually used.
> 
> The index extractor should be a new binary or part of the Scrollkeeper
> library if we manage to turn SK to a library.
> 
> This is a very short description, but I think it contains the main
> issues.
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 
> Laszlo
>