Metadata relating to important dates in the life cycle of the
document are stored in a
created and
revised elements in the topic
prolog or ditamap
topicmeta elements.
The topic's
prolog element (and the
topicmeta equivalent in the ditamap) contains a
critdates element, which is used to store date information
relating to the document life cycle. Two types of date information can be
stored in specific date elements:
- created element
- dates associated with the topic as originally created
- revised element
- dates associated with the most recently revised content in the
topic
Only one
created element is allowed, but as many
revised elements as required are allowed.
The
created element can store specific dates in the following
attributes:
- date
- the topic creation date
- golive
- the date the topic was released (made generally available)
- expiry
- the date when the topic content is expected to become obsolete (or
need to be reviewed)
The
revised element can store specific dates in the following
attributes:
- modified
- the date the content of the topic was last modified
- golive
- the date the modified topic was released (made generally available)
- expiry
- the date when the topic content is expected to become obsolete (or
need to be reviewed)
All dates should be entered in
YYYY-MM-DD format, where
YYYY is the year,
MM is the number of the month, and
DD is the number of the day.
An example of a
critdates section is:
<critdates>
<created date="2009-10-22" golive="2009-11-30" />
<revised modified="2009-12-01" golive="2010-01-01" expiry="2010-02-27" />
<revised modified="2010-02-09" golive="2010-02-27" expiry="2010-12-30" />
</critdates>
.