index-base

The <index-base> element allows indexing extensions to be added by specializing off this element. It does not in itself have any meaning and should be ignored in processing.

The <index-base> element can only exist as a child of an <indexterm> element. This characteristic makes it the appropriate element to specialize to add indexing extensions. Specifically, the index-see , index-see-also, and index-sort-as elements only make sense as children of <indexterm> and so are specializations of <index-base>. Those elements are all part of the indexing domain, which is new for DITA 1.1.

On its own, <index-base> has no meaning. Processors should ignore this element and its content if encountered in its unspecialized form.

Contains

Doctype Content model
ditabase, topic, task, reference, concept ( text data or keyword or option or parmname or apiname or cmdname or msgnum or varname or wintitle or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown or indexterm) (any number)
map, bookmap ( text data or keyword or term or data or data-about or foreign or unknown or indexterm) (any number)

Contained by

Doctype Parents
bookmap, map, ditabase, topic, task, concept, reference, glossary indexterm

Inheritance:

- topic/index-base

Attributes

Name Description Data Type Default Value Required?
%univ-atts; (%select-atts;, %id-atts;, %localization-atts;) A set of related attributes, described at %univ-atts; parameter entity PE not applicable Not applicable
%global-atts; (xtrf, xtrc) A set of related attributes, described at %global-atts; parameter entity PE not applicable Not applicable
class, keyref Common attributes described in Other common DITA attributes      

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OASIS DITA Language Specification v1.1 -- Committee Draft 02, 8 May 2007
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