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

Subject: Re: [jats-list] [BITS] Equivalent of DocBook's itermset
From: "B Tommie Usdin btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 16:32:22 -0000
IMO -- adequate: yes. comfortable: no.

Looks like something the BITS Committee should discuss. (Bringing it up on
this list is the way to bring issues the attention of the BITS Committee.)

-- Tommie

> On Oct 23, 2021, at 5:37 AM, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex
gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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