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