--> If you want to use created or revised elements elsewhere ... see "Chapter 11. Extensive customization" http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/howItWorks.html#howItWorks
That's exactly the sort of pointer I was hoping for; thanks. I shall now pass this information on to a colleague in Athens - he was delighted to discover ditac, and already understands a lot more about it than I do. N -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com] Sent: donderdag 24 januari 2019 18:48 To: Grundtvig Nielsen Niels Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com'; ditac-supp...@xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] a non-urgent how-to question 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 ********************************************************************************************* Worldline SA/NV - Chaussee de Haecht 1442 Haachtsesteenweg - 1130 Brussels - Belgium RPM-RPR Bruxelles-Brussel - TVA-BTW BE 0418.547.872 Bankrekening-Compte Bancaire-Bank Account 310-0269424-44 BIC BBRUBEBB - IBAN BE55 3100 2694 2444 "The information contained in this e-mail and any attachment there to be confidential and may contain information which is protected by intellectual property rights. This information is intended for the exclusive use of the recipient(s) named above. This e-mail does not constitute any binding relationship or offer toward any of the addressees. If you are not one of the addressees , one of their employees or a proxy holder entitled to hand over this message to the addressee(s), any use of the information contained herein (e.g. reproduction, divulgation, communication or distribution,...) is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and destroy it immediately after. The integrity and security of this message cannot be guaranteed and it may be subject to data corruption, interception and unauthorized amendment, for which we accept no liability." -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
