Thanks for the quick and helpful answer, Hussein. I'll bear XSLT tuning in
mind, though it might not get to the top of my to-do list immediately :-}
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com>wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 08:56 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote:
>
>> I know I've seen something about footers in the XML Mind documentation,
>> but now I want to check the information I can't find it again :-{
>>
>> I've just happily converted a short set of Functional Specs to DITA,
>> then produced HTML help as portable output. What I'm now wondering is,
>> can I use DITA critdates to include "last updated" in a/the footer?
>> There is a general assertion or belief that distributing content on-line
>> helps make sure readers always have access to the latest version, but
>> given their tendency to print pages out I feel a visible time-stamp is
>> still something I'd like to provide.
>>
>>
> There is a way[*] to do this when generating XSL-FO based formats (PDF,
> RTF, etc), but not when generating HTML-based formats.
>
> This means that if you really need this feature, then you'll have to
> customize the XSLT stylesheets which generate HTML help.
>
>
>
>
> [ps] thoughtful use of grep has turned up the page about Print options,
>> but I'm not sure that's what I need.
>>
>
> This is indeed not related to what you want to do. Print options are used
> to parameterize XMLmind XML Editor's "File|Print".
>
>
>
> ---
> [*] {{document-date}}, page header/footer variable. See
> http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.
> html#xsltParams__I_d3bw7e_
>
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