Sort glossgroup alphabetically

[daryl]

Hi,

Is it possible to sort glossentrys by alphabetical order in a glossgroup?


Thanks

[cosmin_andrei]

Hello,

Unfortunately, this feature is not available in the current implementation of Oxygen XML WebHelp.
We have already registered a feature request. I have added your vote.

[Radu]

Hi,

Although this sorting is not possible automatically at publishing time there is a possibility to do something like this manually by applying an XML refactoring operation on the DITA Map:

https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/sort_ ... tries.html

Regards,
Radu

[daryl]

I see. However, currently, I am using a <glossgroup> and <glossentry> to organize it into a list.
What are the key differences between using a glossgroup and a glossarylist?

[Radu]

Hi,

So instead of keeping each glossentry to a separate file, you have a single glossgroup file with multiple glossentry elements inside? Similarly you need to probably create an XML refactoring action based on a custom XSLT stylesheet, but apply it directly on the glossgroup file to sort the glossentries. The XSLT in my blog post would need to be adjusted to work inside a glossgroup instead of working on a DITA Map and sorting references to glossentries.

Regards,
Radu

[chrispitude]

Hi Radu,

This is also how we create our glossaries - as a single .dita file containing a <glossgroup> with many entries.

The fun (?) part is that to be able to reference these glossary terms by key, we have to include key-defining <topicref>s for every term:

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  <appendix href="ptug/glossary.dita" keys="glossary">
    <topicref href="ptug/glossary.dita#active_edge" keys="glossary_active_edge"/>
    <topicref href="ptug/glossary.dita#aggressor_net" keys="glossary_aggressor_net"/>
...
    <topicref href="ptug/glossary.dita#CHDJFEFD" keys="glossary_voltage_area"/>
    <topicref href="ptug/glossary.dita#wire_load_model" keys="glossary_wire_load_model"/>
  </appendix>

but we have an External Tool we run in Oxygen that does this for us (a compiled Perl script), so it's not too terribly bad.