You are totally correct, our doc does not have any indexterm. This is going a huge work. Is there a way to a default list?
Thanks -D On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/07/2012 04:18 AM, Dan Tran wrote: >> >> It is known to ditaot world that index pages are not possible with FOP. > > > I don't see why. The only limitation of FOP is that, unlike XEP (and > probably Antenna House), it cannot remove duplicate page numbers in an index > entry. > > FOP: > > Felis Catus 1, 1, 2, 3-4, 5, 5 > > XEP: > > Felis Catus 1, 2, 3-4, 5 > > > > >> >> The question is how did >> http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual-fop.pdf get >> its index pages working? > > > The ditac preprocessor generates everything needed to have *any* XSL-FO > processor create a usable index section. > > [1] The ditac preprocessor performs all the indexterm processing and creates > a ditac:indexList element in the dita_lists.ditac_lists file. The > ditac:indexList element represents the logical contents of the index > section. > > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/howItWorks.html#howItWorks > -- Search for "ditac:indexList" > > [2] Then the XSLT stylesheets converts ditac:indexList to XSL-FO > > See ditac_install_dir/xsl/fo/ditac_indexList.xsl > > [3] Then the XSL-FO processor converts the XSL-FO to PDF, RTF, etc. > > > > >> >> my experiment using ditac with -index param to generate pdf with FOP >> returns empty page >> > > Ditac fully supports DITA Indexing. The corresponding code is extensively > tested. We generate indexes all the time for our needs. > > Therefore my guess is that your DITA source does not contain any indexterm > element. > > See http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/indexterm.html > -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
