On 1 March 2015 at 22:23, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote: > I'd suggest not adding data to the output formats unless there is a > real use for it. > > The purpose of the XML format is to provide a maximal representation of > the Texinfo input. There is no "use" for XML beyond that.
There is a question of the amount of redundancy in the output, without changing the amount of information it contains. Users of the XML files could count the index entries themselves, so having a "number" attribute is there as a convenience only. Likewise, the 'number' data in the parse tree is set there for the convenience of the converters.
