Title page dates for OOB publishing template

[Jeff_Reynolds]

Hello!

I am using the Ashes publishing template with great results! Thank you!

I have one question: how do I gracefully inject additional content (like a date, mm/yy) onto the title page? Anytime I try to define content I seems to overwrite the title inherit from the ditamap.

Cheers!

[alin]

Hello,

You can use an XSLT Extension (https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... mport.html) in your Publishing Template to generate the additional content.
You can use the following sample as inspiration: https://github.com/oxygenxml/oxygen-pub ... e-in-title
Here is how the output would look like:



Regards,
Alin

[Jeff_Reynolds]

Hello!

Thanks for your quick reply!

I did not mention I was generating pdf, and I require changes to place a date on the title page of a pdf title page. Adding a content declaration seems to overwrite the inherited title.

My current page looks like:

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*[class ~= "front-page/front-page-title"] {
    font-size: 36pt;
    line-height: 1.5em;
    font-family: "Montserrat", sans-serif;
    color: #FFFFFF !important;
}

/* Stephen tries to add date to cover page in PDF but did not work.
front-page-title:after(1) {

    content: "May 2021";
    margin-top: 125px;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    text-transform: none;
    display: block;
    color: #00243e;
    font-size: 14pt;
    font-family: "Montserrat";
    font-weight: 500;
    line-height: 1.0;
    text-align: left;

}
 */

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Dan]

There are examples in this topic from the documentation, I think they match your use-case:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... aid-title6

I changed a bit your example, I used the class selector, not the element selector, and I used instead of a static content, the current date with a special format:

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*[class ~= "front-page/front-page-title"]:after(1) {

    content: oxy_xpath("format-dateTime(current-dateTime(), '[h1]:[m01] [P] on [MNn] [D].')");
    margin-top: 125px;
    vertical-align: baseline;
    text-transform: none;
    display: block;
    color: #00243e;
    font-size: 14pt;
    font-family: "Montserrat";
    font-weight: 500;
    line-height: 1.0;
    text-align: left;

}

It appears fine, with the date under the title, at the left side of the page. If it does not wor you when you add this rule to the CSS, try using an :after with a higher rank, like :after(5)..

For date formatting see: https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#format-date

Many regards,
Dan

[Jeff_Reynolds]

Thanks!