[osis-core] Index

Steve DeRose osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 12:22:01 -0400


At 02:55 PM -0400 06/21/02, Harry Plantinga wrote:
>A few ThML documents have <index> elements, specifying
>that a spot in the text should go in a subject or other
>index.
>
>   <index type="subject" subject1="Christian Life" subject2="Sanctification"
>   title="Apotheosis">The word apotheosis...</index>
>
>For a few moments the following crossed my mind:
>
>   <seg type="subject-index" n="Christian Life:Sanctification"
>   resp="Apotheosis">
>
>... but then my sanity was restored and I decided to drop
>the indexing information.

Seems a shame to drop it; how does everybody feel about adding some 
basic index-entry element, like, say:

<index index-name='subjects' key1='sacrifices' key2='cows' 
key3='preparation of'>...</index>

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