[jats-list] [BITS] Equivalent of DocBook's itermset

Subject: [jats-list] [BITS] Equivalent of DocBook's itermset
From: "Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:37:02 -0000
Yesterday a customer filed an issue because she spotted index-term elements in book-title and asked whether they are there by mistake:

<book-meta>
<book-id book-id-type="doi">10.1024/85978-000</book-id>
<book-id book-id-type="publisher">85978</book-id>
<book-title-group>
<book-title>Kopfarbeit in guten HC$nden<index-term id="ie_101024_85978_GBFB_d7773e61" content-type="hub:not-placed-on-page">
<term>Attackenschwindel</term>
<see>Schwindelattacke</see>
</index-term><index-term id="ie_101024_85978_GBFB_d7773e64" content-type="hub:not-placed-on-page">
<term>Augenbewegung</term>
<index-term>
<term>sakkadische</term>
<see>Sakkaden</see>
</index-term>
</index-term>
etc.


You might notice two things: These index-terms have a content-type="hub:not-placed-on-page", and they have see entries.

When we convert from IDML to BITS, index terms that are included for some reason but don't appear on a page are discarded. Except when they contain see entries. Then they need not be placed anywhere in the body since they will be turned into index entries that point to other index entries rather than to pages (or to anchors in an HTML snippet).

In the DocBook-based intermediate format, we put them into /*/info/itermset (https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/itermset.html). In BITS there is no equivalent so we put them into an element that is always present in this production line, which is book-title.

Do you think this is adequate?

Do you think there should be a dedicated metadata element in BITS like DookBook's itermset?

Gerrit

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