Re: Multi-grouping with keys (back of book index)

philip vallone wrote:

> Hi, I am building a back of the book index using keys and grouping. I am
> able to group the <indexterms> to the @name attribute, but I can't figure
> out how to group the @name attribute to its respective letter. My desired
> output is:

I see that you are grouping indexterms by their first letter. This works
for English, but in many other languages this approach is insufficient.
If you need to support other languages you might be interested in the
following paper:

http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/77/xslindex.html

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