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<index-entry> Index Entry

One entry, with all its subdivisions, see and see also terms, and navigational pointers (if any) in a structural index.
Attributes
content-type
sort-key
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<index>, <index-div>, <index-entry>
Description
The following, in order:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  index-entry  %index-entry-model;                          >
Expanded Content Model

(term, (index-entry | ext-link | nav-pointer | nav-pointer-group | see-entry | see-also-entry | x)*)

Tagged Samples
With links into the text 
...
<book-back>
 <index>
  <index-title-group>
   <title>Index</title>
  </index-title-group>
  ...
  <index-div>
   <index-title-group>
    <title>N</title>
   </index-title-group>
   ...
   <index-entry>
    <term>Navy</term>
    <x>.</x>
    <see-entry>Armed forces</see-entry>
    <x>.</x>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Necessary and proper clause, congressional power</term>
    <nav-pointer-group>...</nav-pointer-group>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Newsgathering as commerce</term>
    <nav-pointer-group> 
     <nav-pointer rid="idx13" nav-pointer-type="point"/> 
    </nav-pointer-group>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Newspapers</term>
    <x> (</x>
    <see-also-entry>Speech and press</see-also-entry>
    <x>):</x>
    <index-entry>
     <term>Contempt for publication</term>
     <nav-pointer-group> 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx14-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
      <nav-pointer rid="idx14-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/> 
     </nav-pointer-group>
    </index-entry>
    <index-entry>
     <term>Exclusion from mails</term>
     <nav-pointer-group> 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx15" nav-pointer-type="point"/> 
     </nav-pointer-group>
    </index-entry>
   </index-entry>
  </index-div>
  ...
 </index>
</book-back>
...
With print page numbers 
...
<book-back>
 <index>
  <index-title-group>
   <title>Index</title>
  </index-title-group>
  ...
  <index-div>
   <index-title-group>
    <title>N</title>
   </index-title-group>
   ...
   <index-entry>
    <term>Navy</term>
    <x>.</x>
    <see-entry>Armed forces</see-entry>
    <x>.</x>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Necessary and proper clause, congressional power</term>
    <nav-pointer-group>...</nav-pointer-group>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Newsgathering as commerce</term>
    <nav-pointer-group>
     <nav-pointer rid="idx13" nav-pointer-type="point">162</nav-pointer>
    </nav-pointer-group>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Newspapers</term>
    <x> (</x>
    <see-also-entry>Speech and press</see-also-entry>
    <x>):</x>
    <index-entry>
     <term>Contempt for publication</term>
     <nav-pointer-group> 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx14-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">627</nav-pointer>&ndash; 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx14-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">629</nav-pointer> 
     </nav-pointer-group>
    </index-entry>
    <index-entry>
     <term>Exclusion from mails</term>
     <nav-pointer-group> 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx15" nav-pointer-type="point">290</nav-pointer>
     </nav-pointer-group>
    </index-entry>
   </index-entry>
  </index-div>
  ...
 </index>
</book-back>
...
With nested index terms and links into the text 
...
<book-back>
 <index>
  <index-title-group>
   <title>Index</title>
  </index-title-group>
  ...
  <index-div>
   <index-title-group>
    <title>I</title>
   </index-title-group>
   ...
   <index-entry>
    <term>Interstate commerce</term>
    <x>:</x>
    ...
    <index-entry>
     <term>State powers, taxation and regulation</term>
     <nav-pointer-group>
      <nav-pointer rid="idx1-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
      <nav-pointer rid="idx1-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/>
     </nav-pointer-group>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Balancing test, modern standard</term>
      <nav-pointer-group> 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx2-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx2-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/> 
      </nav-pointer-group>
     </index-entry>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Regulation of commerce</term>
      <nav-pointer-group> 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx6-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx6-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx7-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx7-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx8-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx8-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/> 
      </nav-pointer-group>
     </index-entry>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Taxation of commerce</term>
      <nav-pointer-group> 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx10-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx10-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx11-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash; 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx11-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/> 
      </nav-pointer-group>
      <index-entry>
       <term>Apportionment</term>
       <nav-pointer-group> 
        <nav-pointer rid="idx12" nav-pointer-type="point"/>, 
        <nav-pointer rid="idx13-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range"/>&ndash; 
        <nav-pointer rid="idx13-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range"/> 
       </nav-pointer-group>
      </index-entry>
      <index-entry>
       <term>Benefit relationship</term>
       <nav-pointer rid="idx14" nav-pointer-type="point"/>
      </index-entry>
     </index-entry>
    </index-entry>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Interstate compacts</term>
    <x>.</x>
    <see-entry>States, Agreements with other States</see-entry>
    <x>.</x>
   </index-entry>
   ...
  </index-div>
  ...
 </index>
</book-back>
...
With nested terms and print page numbers 
...
<book-back>
 <index>
  <index-title-group>
   <title>Index</title>
  </index-title-group>
  ...
  <index-div>
   <index-title-group>
    <title>I</title>
   </index-title-group>
   ...
   <index-entry>
    <term>Interstate commerce</term>
    <x>:</x>
    ...
    <index-entry>
     <term>State powers, taxation and regulation</term>
     <nav-pointer-group> 
      <nav-pointer rid="idx1-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">209</nav-pointer>&ndash;
      <nav-pointer rid="idx1-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">240</nav-pointer>
     </nav-pointer-group>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Balancing test, modern standard</term>
      <nav-pointer-group> 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx2-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">233</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx2-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">234</nav-pointer>
      </nav-pointer-group>
     </index-entry>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Regulation of commerce</term>
      <nav-pointer-group> 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx6-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">220</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx6-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">221</nav-pointer>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx7-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">224</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx7-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">227</nav-pointer>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx8-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">233</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx8-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">240</nav-pointer> 
      </nav-pointer-group>
     </index-entry>
     <index-entry>
      <term>Taxation of commerce</term>
      <nav-pointer-group>
       <nav-pointer rid="idx10-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">220</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx10-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">223</nav-pointer>, 
       <nav-pointer rid="idx11-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">227</nav-pointer>&ndash;
       <nav-pointer rid="idx11-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">233</nav-pointer> 
      </nav-pointer-group>
      <index-entry>
       <term>Apportionment</term>
       <nav-pointer-group> 
        <nav-pointer rid="idx12" nav-pointer-type="point">223</nav-pointer>,
        <nav-pointer rid="idx13-1" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">231</nav-pointer>&ndash;
        <nav-pointer rid="idx13-2" nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">232</nav-pointer> 
       </nav-pointer-group>
      </index-entry>
      <index-entry>
       <term>Benefit relationship</term>
       <nav-pointer rid="idx14" nav-pointer-type="point">233</nav-pointer>
      </index-entry>
     </index-entry>
    </index-entry>
   </index-entry>
   <index-entry>
    <term>Interstate compacts</term>
    <x>.</x>
    <see-entry>States, Agreements with other States</see-entry>
    <x>.</x>
   </index-entry>
   ...
  </index-div>
  ...
 </index>
</book-back>
...
Typical index entry 
...
<index-entry>
 <term>Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de</term>
 <nav-pointer-group>
  <nav-pointer rid="page-69" nav-pointer-type="point">69</nav-pointer>,
  <nav-pointer rid="page-71" nav-pointer-type="point">71</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-73" nav-pointer-type="start-of-range">73
   </nav-pointer>–<nav-pointer rid="page-75" 
                    nav-pointer-type="end-of-range">75</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-78" nav-pointer-type="point">78</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-79" nav-pointer-type="point">79</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-81" nav-pointer-type="point">81</nav-pointer>
 </nav-pointer-group>
</index-entry>
...
With sub-entries 
...
<index-entry>
 <term>Britain</term>
 <nav-pointer-group>
  <nav-pointer rid="page-56" nav-pointer-type="point">56</nav-pointer>,
  <nav-pointer rid="page-240" nav-pointer-type="point">240</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-241" nav-pointer-type="point">241</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-253" nav-pointer-type="point">253</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-261" nav-pointer-type="point">261</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-267" nav-pointer-type="point">267</nav-pointer>
 </nav-pointer-group>
 <index-entry>
  <term>image of —</term>
  <nav-pointer-group>
   <nav-pointer rid="page-239" nav-pointer-type="point">239</nav-pointer>,
   <nav-pointer rid="page-244" nav-pointer-type="point">244</nav-pointer>, 
   <nav-pointer rid="page-252" nav-pointer-type="point">252</nav-pointer>
  </nav-pointer-group>
 </index-entry>
</index-entry>
...
With a “See also” entry 
...
<index-entry>
 <term>black legend</term>
 <nav-pointer-group>
  <nav-pointer rid="page-10" nav-pointer-type="point">10</nav-pointer>,
  <nav-pointer rid="page-37" nav-pointer-type="point">37</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-39" nav-pointer-type="point">39</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-48" nav-pointer-type="point">48</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-57" nav-pointer-type="point">57</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-70" nav-pointer-type="point">70</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-223" nav-pointer-type="point">223</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-234" nav-pointer-type="point">234</nav-pointer>, 
  <nav-pointer rid="page-235" nav-pointer-type="point">235</nav-pointer>
 </nav-pointer-group>
 <see-also-entry>leyenda negra</see-also-entry>
</index-entry>
...
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