index-see

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 2: Technical Content Edition

Document
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Version 1.3 Part 2: Technical Content Edition
Version
1.3
Author
OASIS DITA Technical Committee

An index-see element within an indexterm element redirects the reader to another index entry that the reader should reference instead of the current one.

The index-see and index-see-also elements allow a form of redirection to another index entry within the generated index. The index-see element refers to an index entry that the reader should use instead of the current one, whereas the index-see-also element refers to an index entry that the reader should use in addition to the current one.

Processors should ignore index-see and index-see-also elements if their parent indexterm element contains any indexterm children.

Because an index-see indicates a redirection to use instead of the current entry, it is an error if, for any index-see, there is also an index-see-also or an indexterm for the same index entry (that is, another entry with an identical sort key). For example, if an indexterm element with the content "Memory stick" also includes <index-see>USB drive</index-see>, it is an error if there is also an indexterm with the contents "Memory stick". This is to prevent index entries that are both a redirect and a page reference, such as:

* Memory stick     42, 106
     * See USB drive

An implementation MAY give an error message when it encounters this condition, and MAY recover from this error condition by treating the index-see as an index-see-also.

There can be multiple index-see elements for a single index entry.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

+ topic/index-base indexing-d/index-see

Example

The following example illustrates the use of an index-see redirection element within an indexterm:

<indexterm>Carassius auratus
   <index-see>Goldfish</index-see>
</indexterm>

This will typically generate an index entry without a page reference:

  • Carassius auratus, see Goldfish

The following example illustrates the use of an index-see redirection element to a more complex (multilevel) indexterm:

<indexterm>Feeding goldfish
   <index-see>Goldfish <indexterm>feeding</indexterm></index-see>
</indexterm>

This is part of the indexing markup that might generate index entries such as:

  • Feeding goldfish
    • see Goldfish feeding
  • Goldfish
    • feeding, 56
    • flushing, 128, 345
The following example illustrates using a specialization of ph within index-see:
<indexterm>Einstein's mass and energy equation
  <index-see>E=mc<sup>2</sup></index-see>
</indexterm>

Attributes

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and keyref.