Re: [docbook-apps] Section numbers and titles in PDF indexes

Excellent, thank you!

I'll let you know how I get on

2009/8/27 Bob Stayton <>:
> Hi,
> This can be done, but it somewhat depends on which XSL-FO processor you are
> using.  If you are using XEP, then it is a little more complicated because
> XEP has indexing extensions that collapse duplicate page numbers and ranges,
> and the Docbook stylesheets make use of those extensions when when the
> stylesheet parameter xep.extensions=1.
>
> If you are not using XEP, you can customize this template from
> fo/autoidx.xsl:
>
>  <xsl:template match="indexterm" mode="reference">
>
> Where you see:
>
>       <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="{$id}"/>
>
> you can replace it with code to generate the section title.  The $id here is
> the generated id for the indexterm, used in the marker element, which is an
> empty fo element placed as the point destination for the indexterm in the
> body of the document.  So this id won't be used for the section text.
>
> To generate a text string like "3.4 Product Range", you'll need to find the
> appropriate ancestor element of the indexterm.  The same template in
> html/autoidx.xsl has the code for that.  It uses a text entity &section;
> which is defined in common/entities.ent (you'll need to include those entity
> declarations at the top of your customization layer in the same way
> html/autoidx.xsl does).  Then you can generate the number and title with:
>
> <xsl:variable name="container" select="&section;"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$container" mode="label.markup"/>
> <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="$container" mode="title.markup"/>
>
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> 
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew McFarland"
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> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:28 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] Section numbers and titles in PDF indexes
>
>
>> I'd like to have a PDF index with section numbers and section titles
>> in the index instead of page numbers.
>>
>> E.g instead of
>>
>> widgets .......... 54
>>
>> Have
>>
>> widgets........3.4 Product Range
>>
>> Is this possible? I can't see any easy way to do this. I looked at the
>> HTML index template, and only got confused.
>>
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