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kwag_myers October 22, 2010 at 8:59 pm

I got asterisks in my Index
October 22, 2010 at 8:59 pm

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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 October 25, 2010 at 11:39 am

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October 25, 2010 at 11:39 am

We've traced this back to topics with an empty tag.

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kwag_myers October 25, 2010 at 11:52 am

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October 25, 2010 at 11:52 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 November 12, 2010 at 10:31 pm

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November 12, 2010 at 10:31 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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