Re: should index be empty in makeinfo docbook/xml output?

[Karl Berry]

    (2) have whoever makes use of the docbook be responsible for the index.
    I think (2) makes more sense - for generating both 'docbook' and 'xml'.

For Docbook, no problem, I can see that suppressing the index makes
sense.(*)

For XML, I'd like to ask Torsten for his opinion first; he just wrote a
texi2latex program based on the XML output and don't know what
implications there would be if we removed the index entries from the
output.  I take your point in general, but not sure about practice.
Torsten?

If anyone else is using either the XML or Docbook output and has an
opinion, please chime in.

Thanks,
Karl


(*) I've never seriously looked at the Docbook output, and know
relatively little about Docbook.  I integrated a patch for the initial
support some years ago, and Alper Ersoy changed the code to generate
Docbook/XML instead of Docbook/XML a couple releases ago.  I feel sure
there are many infelicities/incorrect use of Docbook in makeinfo.  So
since you're actually trying to use it, please feel free to hack as
needed.

I recall that Arnold Robbins gave the Docbook output, with lots of
post-processing, to O'Reilly to print the Gawk manual.  That's the only
nontrivial use of the Docbook output that I'm aware of.  He probably
just excised all the index stuff.