Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] extracted index

[Gregory L. <gle...@cu...>]

On 24 May 2001 16:37:59 +0100, Mary Dwyer wrote:
> Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > > 
> > > 2. If an indexterm occurs more than once in the original document then will
> > > result in a duplicate entry such as this eg.
> > >  <primary>
> > >     <title linkid="idx-a2" id="id10715">Panel</title>
> > >     <title linkid="idx-a9" id="id10715">Panel</title>
> > > 
> > >     - this is not ideal, but not sure how to get round this.
> > We probably need to find some solution for this. Is this like there are
> > actually two different Panel descriptions in the text? Because if yes
> > then the document is probably incorrectly written. 
> 
> - yes, it's because there are two indexterm entries in the original document as 
> follows:
> <indexterm id="idx-a2"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> <indexterm id="idx-a9"><primary>Panel</primary></indexterm>
> 
> granted, in a correctly written help document this shouldn't occur ...

That's clearly not correct.  Open up a book that you have which contains
an index, and you'll see a very large number of index terms that show up
on multiple pages.  Usually something like

Cats, Big.... 13, 25, 256

So this is not a error in the document, as far as I'm concerned.
    Greg

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