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kwag_myers
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« on: October 22, 2010, 02:59:04 PM »
I just noticed this the other day, so I have no idea when it actually started. But I'm generating webhelp and I keep getting three asterisks as the first entry of my Index. It's linked to a topic that, at first, had no metadata. I added the metadata with no change. I've opened the help in several browsers, too. Any ideas?
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mzwecker
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2010, 05:39:01 AM »
We've traced this back to topics with an empty <indexterm> tag.
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kwag_myers
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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2010, 05:52:27 AM »
And there it was, lost in the body of the page. I had to do a Find in Plain Text View to locate it. Thanks!!!!!
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Derek Read
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« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2010, 04:31:41 PM »
FYI, in this particular case the following warning should appear in the DITA OT log file when you generate output:

DOTJ014W    WARN    The indexterm element does not have any content. Setting the term to ***.    Please add content to the indexterm.

Taken from here: http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/doc/ot-userguide13/xhtml/troubleshooting/messages_toolkit.html
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