1<refentry id="index.number.separator"> 2<refmeta> 3<refentrytitle>index.number.separator</refentrytitle> 4<refmiscinfo role="type">string</refmiscinfo> 5</refmeta> 6<refnamediv> 7<refname>index.number.separator</refname> 8<refpurpose>Override for punctuation separating page numbers in index</refpurpose> 9</refnamediv> 10 11<refsynopsisdiv> 12<src:fragment id='index.number.separator.frag'> 13<xsl:param name="index.number.separator" select="''"/> 14</src:fragment> 15</refsynopsisdiv> 16 17<refsect1><title>Description</title> 18 19<para>This parameter permits you to override the text to insert between 20page references in a formatted index entry. Typically 21that would be a comma and a space. 22</para> 23 24<para>Because this text may be locale dependent, 25this parameter's value is normally taken from a gentext 26template named 'number-separator' in the 27context 'index' in the stylesheet 28locale file for the language 29of the current document. 30This parameter can be used to override the gentext string, 31and would typically be used on the command line. 32This parameter would apply to all languages. 33</para> 34 35<para>So this text string can be customized in two ways. 36You can reset the default gentext string using 37the <parameter>local.l10n.xml</parameter> parameter, or you can 38override the gentext with the content of this parameter. 39The content can be a simple string, or it can be 40something more complex such as a call-template. 41</para> 42 43<para>In HTML index output, section title references are used instead of 44page number references. This punctuation appears between 45such section titles in an HTML index. 46</para> 47 48</refsect1> 49</refentry> 50