On 01/24/2019 11:46 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
Good morning! the upgrade debate continues, but for the time being I’m
still quite happily working with 7.6.0. I’ve started looking at a
potential new project, and have a fairly clear question: when I use
<created> and <revised> in DITA topics and then generate WebHelp, what
needs to be done to display these dates in the output html?
I’m not requesting step-by-step instructions, just a pointer so I can
take the question farther in-house. Thanks in advance!
Elements critdates/created and critdates/revised are processed by XSLT
template:
---
<xsl:template name="titlePage_lastCritdate">
<xsl:variable name="date"
select="*[contains(@class,' map/topicmeta ')]/*[contains(@class,'
topic/critdates ')]/*[last()]"/>
<xsl:if test="exists($date)">
<xsl:variable name="lang">
<xsl:call-template name="lang"/>
</xsl:variable>
<div class="last-critdate">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="exists($date/@golive)">
<xsl:value-of select="Date:format(string($date/@golive),
$lang)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="exists($date/@modified)">
<xsl:value-of select="Date:format(string($date/@modified),
$lang)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="exists($date/@date)">
<xsl:value-of select="Date:format(string($date/@date),
$lang)"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</div>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
---
This XSLT template is found:
* In XXE distribution:
XXE_install_dir/addon/config/dita/xsl/xhtml/ditac_titlePage.xsl
* In ditac distribution: ditact_install_dir/xsl/xhtml/ditac_titlePage.xsl
This XSLT template formats the date found in very last created or
revised element and adds it to the "title page" of the web help.
For example:
---
...
<critdates>
<created date="2009-09-17" golive="2009-09-23"/>
...
<revised golive="2018-08-21" modified="2018-08-16"/>
<revised golive="2018-11-29" modified="2018-11-29"/>
</critdates>
</bookmeta>
---
gives the following "title page":
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/index.html
--> If you just want to add more information to the "title page" of the
web help, suffice to redefine XSLT template "titlePage_lastCritdate".
--> If you want to use created or revised elements elsewhere, then you
need to understand how ditac works, for example, what is the
ditac:titlePage element generated during the DITA preprocessing step.
See "Chapter 11. Extensive customization",
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/howItWorks.html#howItWorks
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