The index-see and index-see-also elements allow a form of redirection to another index entry within the generated index. The index-see element refers to an index entry that the reader should use instead of the current one, whereas the index-see-also element refers to an index entry that the reader should use in addition to the current one.

Processors should ignore index-see and index-see-also elements if their parent indexterm element contains any indexterm children.

In addition to its "see also" redirection, an index-see-also functions as a pointwise index term, thereby typically generating a page reference as well as the "see also" indication.

It is not an error for there to be multiple index-see-also elements for a single index entry.

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

+ topic/index-base indexing-d/index-see-also

The following example illustrates the use of an index-see-also redirection element within an indexterm:

This will typically generate a page reference to "Carp" and a redirection:

The following example illustrates the use of an index-see-also redirection element to a more complex (multilevel) indexterm:

This is part of the indexing markup that might generate index entries such as:

The following example illustrates using a specialization of ph within index-see-also:

The following attributes are available on this element: Universal attribute group and keyref.