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12.11 Index in WML

The technique for creating an index is much like the technique for creating a generated table of contents. The function that generates an index is:

index(markertype, indexoption)

where:

markertype

is the type of source FrameMaker marker. The possible values are:

2 or Index
3 or Comment
4 or Subject
5 or Author
6 or Glossary
11, 12, ..., 24
indexoption

May take one of three values: simple, letter, or node.

The value simple creates a single node index with letter groups separated only by a space.
The value letter creates a single node index with letter groups separated by letter headings.
The value node creates one node per letter group, in which case a letter button is generated in the top index node for each letter group for which there is at least one index entry. Node rules may only be specified for the top index node which is also the only node that may be accessed using filename(node).

An index is triggered by the single use of a FrameMaker paragraph tag, such as WWW-IX. A node type dedicated for this use should be specified because: