HTML3

Michael Johnson (michaelj@relay.relay.com)
Thu, 01 Dec 94 14:04:45 EST

I see that the HTML+ INDEX attribute has gotten dropped. I'd like to see that
resurrected as well, with a more concrete definition. The HTML+ spec was
unclear on how to handle index terms after the first pair. May I suggest that
pairs of index terms always be treated as primary/secondary pairs, so that
the syntax of an INDEX attribute would be:

INDEX="primary[/[secondary][/primary[/[secondary]...]]]"

Where primary and secondary are phrases. For example:

INDEX="tags/markup/markup/tags"
INDEX="language/generalized markup/generalized markup/language/GML//SGML"

These might result in index terms that look like these:

markup
tags
.
.
.
tags
markup

and

generalized markup
language
GML
.
.
.
language
generalized markup
.
.
.
SGML

As with the HTML+ spec, the INDEX attribute would be used by an index-building
program (which could be a module of a browser) to build an index for one or
more HTML documents.

Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.