On 02/22/2014 07:34 PM, Julie McHam wrote:
I created a conversion specification to transform DITA to DOCX files. I
would like to put a publication date in the lower left footer. I tried
specifying {{document-date}} for the footer-left parameter, but nothing
appears. Where does {{document-date}} look for this date? Is it a meta
tag that I should have defined in my ditamap file? If so, I’m not sure
which meta tag to use.
It's taken from the last <created> or <revised> element found in
<topicmeta>/<critdates> or <bookmeta>/<critdates> element of your <map>
or <bookmap>.
See http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/langref/critdates.html
The date comes from the value of attribute "golive" or "modified" or
"date", considered in that order.
This value of this attribute must be something like YYYY-MM-DD, because
it is parsed and then formatted according to the language (xml:lang) of
the map.
Example: if golive="2014-02-23",
with xml:lang="en", it gives: February 02, 2014
with xml:lang="fr", it gives: 02 Février 2014
Ideally, I would like to use today’s date as the publication date and
not have to specifically set it anywhere. Is this possible?
There is no variable for that (e.g. {{today}}).
However because the format is specified by the means of the
"footer-left" parameter, you can always change the value of this
parameter before performing the document conversion. This is typically
done automatically by the script which performs the document conversion.
Reference:
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__footer-left
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