From 35668168125c621c97c40f58ca1cdbd075aad65c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Robert D. Anderson" <robert.dan.anderson@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 09:27:46 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Final edits from review Chenier

---
 .../archSpec/base/index-overview.dita         |  3 +--
 specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita | 26 ++++++++++---------
 .../base/location-of-indexterm-elements.dita  | 12 ++++-----
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/specification/archSpec/base/index-overview.dita b/specification/archSpec/base/index-overview.dita
index 80b9296f..da171e7b 100644
--- a/specification/archSpec/base/index-overview.dita
+++ b/specification/archSpec/base/index-overview.dita
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
       <li>An <term>index</term> is a mapping from
           <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> elements to locations in the
         DITA content.</li>
-      <li>a <term>generated index</term> is a human-readable mapping of
-        index terms to rendered locations.</li>
+      <li>A <term>generated index</term> is a mapping of index terms to rendered locations.</li>
     </ul>
         <p>While DITA provides several elements that support indexing, how those elements are used
             will vary by implementation.</p>
diff --git a/specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita b/specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita
index 2ec312a2..9df2a522 100644
--- a/specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita
+++ b/specification/archSpec/base/index-ranges.dita
@@ -33,24 +33,26 @@
         <dl>
             <dlentry>
                 <dt>Topic body</dt>
-                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and
-          end-of-range elements are in the body of the same DITA topic. The
-          range is defined as between two point references in the DITA
-          topic</dd>
+                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and end-of-range elements are in the
+          body of the same DITA topic. The range is defined as between two point references in the
+          DITA topic. If an end-of-range element does not exist within the same topic body, the
+          start-of-range element is treated as a point reference rather than as the start of a
+          range.</dd>
             </dlentry>
             <dlentry>
                 <dt>Topic prolog</dt>
-                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and
-          end-of-range elements are in the prolog of the same DITA topic.
-          The range is defined as being between the title of the DITA topic
-          and the end of the last nested topic. </dd>
+                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and end-of-range elements are in the
+          prolog of the same DITA topic. The range is defined as being between the title of the DITA
+          topic and the end of the last nested topic. If an end-of-range element does not exist
+          within the topic prolog, the start-of-range element is treated as a point reference rather
+          than as the start of a range.</dd>
             </dlentry>
             <dlentry>
                 <dt>DITA map</dt>
-                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and
-          end-of-range elements are contained within topic references in
-          the same DITA map.  If an end-of-range element does not exist
-          within the same map, the start-of-range element is ignored.</dd>
+                <dd rev="review-chenier">The start-of-range and end-of-range elements are contained
+          within topic references in the same DITA map. If an end-of-range element does not exist
+          within the same map, the start-of-range element is treated as a point reference rather
+          than as the start of a range.</dd>
             </dlentry>
         </dl>
         <p>Processors that support index ranges <term outputclass="RFC-2119">SHOULD</term> do the following:<ul>
diff --git a/specification/archSpec/base/location-of-indexterm-elements.dita b/specification/archSpec/base/location-of-indexterm-elements.dita
index f122f0c8..b9abf2bd 100644
--- a/specification/archSpec/base/location-of-indexterm-elements.dita
+++ b/specification/archSpec/base/location-of-indexterm-elements.dita
@@ -18,13 +18,11 @@
         <dl>
             <dlentry>
                 <dt>Topic prologs</dt>
-                <dd>An <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element that is
-          located in a topic prolog is a point reference to the title of
-          the topic. <ph rev="review-1">If an
-              <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element has an
-              <xmlatt>end</xmlatt> attribute, it is a point reference to
-            the <ph rev="review-chenier">end of the branch that is
-              specified by the topic reference</ph>.</ph></dd>
+                <dd>An <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element that is located in a topic prolog
+                    is a point reference to the title of the topic. <ph rev="review-1">If an
+                            <xmlelement>indexterm</xmlelement> element has an <xmlatt>end</xmlatt>
+                        attribute, it is a point reference to the <ph rev="review-chenier">end of
+                            the topic, including any sub-topics</ph>.</ph></dd>
             </dlentry>
             <dlentry rev="review-1">
                 <dt>Anywhere else in a DITA topic</dt>