> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hendrik Schreiber
> Unfortunately none of the index entries in the generated index are
> actual functional links to the referenced sections. Blaine Simpson
> seemed to have had the same problem, but it wasn't solved (http://
> sourceware.org/ml/docbook/2004-04/msg00027.html).
>
> Here's an example:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://
> www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ ]>
> <book>
> <chapter>
> <title>Title</title>
> <para>First Para
> <indexterm>
> <primary>IndexTerm in first para</primary>
> </indexterm>
> </para>
> <sect1>
> <title>
> <indexterm>
> <primary>IndexTerm in sect1 title</primary>
> </indexterm>
> </title>
> <para>Sect1 para
> <indexterm>
> <primary>IndexTerm in sect1 para</primary>
> <secondary>IndexTerm in sect1 para</secondary>
> </indexterm>
> </para>
> </sect1>
> </chapter>
> <index/>
> </book>
When I tested this document with Saxon 6.5.4, I did get one working index
link (to the chapter title), but the others were missing.
Missing index links is a known issue[1] with at least one version of Xalan
(you say that you use Java 1.4.2, and it might actually be Xalan behind the
scenes; I forget the details).
There is another problem: the title element in the sect1 contains only
whitespace + an indexterm. Although this is valid markup, the processing
expectations[2] imply that indexterms are not supposed to be rendered in the
primary flow of the document. An index link points to a title, but in this
case the title is empty. It works better with some text in there.
[1] http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200406/msg00238.html.
[2] http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/indexterm.html
/MJ
