Prolog tag in DITA topic

Post by **Shingo Suzuki** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:51 am

Hi,
I'm just beginning to use <oXygen/> Editor 12.2,
I used FrameMaker+DITA-FMx.

- Can oXygen add "prolog" tag in each topic automatically when is created?
- Can value "cridate" attribute be set automatically to the date when it is created?
- Can value "revised" attribute be set automatically to the date when it is saved?

Thank you.

Post by **Radu** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:59 am

Hi Shingo,

The new file templates used to create DITA files are all found here:
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/templates/

For example if you open the DITA topic file template in Oxygen:
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIT/frameworks/dita/templates/topic/Topic.dita

you can use in it editor variables supported by Oxygen:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ables.html

For example you can set its content to:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">

<topic id="topic_${id}">

  <title>Topic title</title>

  <prolog>

    <critdates>

      <created date="${date(yyyy-MM-dd)}"/>

    </critdates>

  </prolog>

  <body>

    <p>Topic paragraph</p>

  </body>

</topic>

This means that when you will create a new DTD-based DITA topic in Oxygen using the New dialog wizard the topic will have a prolog and also the created date will be set to the current date using the Oxygen date editor variable.
This would solve the first two requests.

About:

Can value "revised" attribute be set automatically to the date when it is saved?

There is no easy to achieve this from the editor. If you are using a version system like SVN or CVS such systems have support to expand macros when the file gets committed.

If have Java development expertise you could also try to implement a plugin for Oxygen which would modify the file contents on disk after it was closed in Oxygen. If you want to follow this approach I can give you more information.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **Shingo Suzuki** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 4:04 pm

Hi, Radu
Thank you very much for quick reply.
It's bad that there is no easy way to achieve the third one.

Thank you again

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