I18n Index Library

What can I18n Index Library do?

I18n Index Library accepts indexterm data from XSLT stylesheet and sort them according to the document language. The sorted results are converted into appropriate XSL-FO format by stylesheet.

I18n Index Library overview

The I18N Support Library is the LGPL open-source license library developed by Innodata Isogen, Inc. Antenna House made some modifications to the original library and opened this library under the LGPL license according to the LGPL rule. This library is included in this release.
The I18N Index Library is an interface library between the stylesheet and the I18N Support Library developed by Antenna House. It provides the sorting capability for the supported language indexes.
The DocBook to FO stylesheet is a sample stylesheet developed by Antenna House. This stylesheet passes index data to the library and makes the formatting objects for indexing from the sorting results. This release contains XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for convenience. You can modify the stylesheets according to your PDF output requirements.
The XSL Formatter outputs PDF from XSL-FO and implements XSL 1.1 indexing features. Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 or Antenna House Formatter V5.2 is recommended.

V2.0 Enhancements

- Implements many DocBook indexterm features using XSL1.1 index functions.

Three-level nested index structure (primary, secondary and tertiary elements).
Range index (startofrange, endofrange attribute).
Significant index (significance attribute).
Supports "See", "See Also" (see, seealso elements).

- Supports 21 language indexes including CJK.

Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean

- Supports major Java based XSLT processors.

XSLT 1.0 processor: Saxon 6.5, Xalan 2.7
XSLT 2.0 processor: Saxon-B 9.1, Saxon-PE 9.2, Saxon-EE 9.2

- Includes sample XSLT stylesheet for DocBook to XSL-FO transformation.

XSLT 1.0 stylesheets for Saxon 6.5, Xalan 2.7
XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for Saxon-B 9.1, Saxon-PE 9.2, Saxon-EE 9.2

- You can use the sortas attribute to correct Simplified Chinese index orders.

For example the Chinese word "粘贴" belongs to "N" index group because the most common reading of "粘" is "nian2". However the correct reading is "zhan1" for this word.

<indexterm><primary>粘贴</primary></indexterm>

You can correct this problem by specifying the correct reading (pinyin) to the sortas attribute value. The fix will place "粘贴" into the "Z" index group.

<indexterm><primary sortas="zhan1 tie1">粘贴</primary></indexterm>

☞ NOTE: The corresponding language codes for supported languages are ca, cs, da, de, en, es, fi, fr, hu, it, nl, no, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, zh-CN, zh-TW, ja, ko

V2.1 Enhancements

- Added "pdf5" plugin for DITA Open Toolkit to support DITA index

The "pdf5" plugin working diagram with DITA Open Toolkit 1.5.

DITA-OT and 'pdf5' Plug-in overview

This plugin contains build.xml, integrator.xml, plugin.xml, DITA (middle file) to XSL-FO stylesheets and this I18n Index Library. You can easily integrate this plugin into DITA Open Toolkit.

- Supports DITA indexterm features

Multiple level nested <indexterm> elements.
Multiple <index-see>,<index-see-also> elements.
<index-sort-as> element.
Range index (indexterm/@start, @end attribute).

- Newly created XSLT2.0 stylesheets for DITA to XSL-FO transformation

Supports most of DITA 1.1 elements and attributes. For instance, in addition to <indexlist> element, <figurelist>, <tablelist> elements have been implemented.
All of the style are defined in the external file called "externl" style definition file in the "config" directory. This "external" style definition file is created for each language-code. Default style definition file, English and CJK files are bundled in this plugin. You can change the manual style only editing this style definition file without editing stylesheet file.
If you want to customize the stylesheet algorithms, add the customization stylesheets in the "customize" folder and include it in dita2fo_custom.xsl. You can use full power of XSLT 2.0 features for DITA to FO transformation.
If indexterm/@start has no corresponding indexterm/@end element, this stylesheet automatically close the indexterm range according to the DITA specification. This process is done at topicref/topicmeta, topic/metadata and body-level range indexterm elements.

System Requirements

Item	Contents
Java Runtime Environment	Sun J2RE 1.4.2 or later
XSLT Processor	Saxon 6.5, Xalan 2.7, Saxon-B 9.1, Saxon-PE 9.2, Saxon-EE 9.2
XML Parser	Xerces 2.x (I18N Support Library uses this processor. Included in this release.)
DITA Open Toolkit	1.5 or later
XSL Formatter	Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.3 or Antenna House Formatter V5

☞ NOTE:

Saxon-HE 9.2 is not supported because it does not allow external Java library call from stylesheet.
Saxon-PE 9.2 and EE 9.2 require Sun JRE 5.0 or later.
DITA Open Toolkit 1.5 uses Saxon-B 9.1 as XSLT Processor.

I18n Index Library

What can I18n Index Library do?

V2.0 Enhancements

- Implements many DocBook indexterm features using XSL1.1 index functions.

- Supports 21 language indexes including CJK.

- Supports major Java based XSLT processors.

- Includes sample XSLT stylesheet for DocBook to XSL-FO transformation.

- You can use the sortas attribute to correct Simplified Chinese index orders.

V2.1 Enhancements

- Added "pdf5" plugin for DITA Open Toolkit to support DITA index

- Supports DITA indexterm features

- Newly created XSLT2.0 stylesheets for DITA to XSL-FO transformation

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