[oXygen-user] Inserting current date into DITA file

[Frank Dissinger]

Hi Radu,


Works like a charm. Thank you!!!


Regards,

Frank


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Am 14.02.2023 um 10:27 schrieb 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
>>
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>> 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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