[oXygen-user] Inserting current date into DITA file

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Frank,


I created a small DITA OT plugin (please see attached) which adds the 
same customization you have for Miramo to all XHTML-based outputs, 
including CHM. You can look into it to see how the plugin works.

DITA OT plugins are installed something like this:


https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/dita-ot-install-plugin.html


Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 2/14/23 10:50, Frank Dissinger wrote:
>
> Hi Radu,
>
>
> Thank you for your reply. I am afraid I am not XSLT-savvy enough to 
> adapt sketched code and I have never created any DITA-OT plugin. I 
> would need the exact code and precise instructions where to put that 
> code in the CHM transformation...
>
>
> I wonder whether the following solution I found for MiramoPDF could be 
> adapted to oXygen's CHM transformation?
>
>
>
> Copyright.dita
>
> <ph audience="print" outputclass="current_year">
>
> ...\Oxygen XML Editor 
> 21\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT3.x\plugins\com.miramo.oris-mmpdf\config\xsl\custom.xsl
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> exclude-result-prefixes="xs opentopic" version="2.0"
>     xmlns:mm="http://www.miramo.com/XSL/Transform"
>     xmlns:opentopic="http://www.idiominc.com/opentopic">
>     <xsl:include href="./functionstubs.xsl"/>
>
> *<xsl:variable name="bc.currentDate" 
> select="format-date(current-date(), '[Y0001]')"/>
>     <xsl:template match="*[@outputclass = 'current_year']" >
>            <xsl:value-of select="$bc.currentDate" />
>     </xsl:template>*
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Could this code be added somewhere in the CHM transformation?
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Am 14.02.2023 um 07:10 schrieb Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu):
>>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>>
>> An Oxygen editor variable expands only once. You seem to need some 
>> kind of macro which would expand every time you publish.
>>
>> So you seem to need more like a publishing customization.
>>
>> For DITA XML maybe you can use the <data> element with a certain name:
>>
>>> <data name="currentYear"/>
>> and then create a DITA Open Toolkit XSLT-based customization plugin 
>> which matches this element at publishing time and replaces it with 
>> the current date. Are you familiar with XSLT? Would you like to 
>> pursue this direction? If so maybe I can try to sketch a small 
>> publishing plugin which would do this.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Radu
>>
>> Radu Coravu
>> Oxygen XML Editor
>> On 2/13/23 18:36, Frank Dissinger wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I insert the current date into a dita file? I would like to 
>>> have oXygen automatically update the year of a copyright notice. I 
>>> know that I can define editor variables. But how can I embed them in 
>>> the dita code?
>>>
>>>
>>> If this needs to be tied to the XSL that produces the deliverable: I 
>>> need this for CHM, which I generate with oXygen. (I have already 
>>> found a solution for MiramoPDF. ) And I'd need to know where exactly 
>>> to add the code... Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Frank
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