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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Date in PCDATA?
/ Laurie Mann <laurie.mann@ansys.com> was heard to say: | >From: Jorge Godoy [mailto:godoy@conectiva.com] | >> "Norman" == Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes: | | >> Norman> I added an RFE for it. | | >It would be intersting to have an RFE for a <today /> too. | | >It could be used like the \today in LaTeX to print the date >a document | >was converted to any other format. It coulde be even made in >a group of | tags: | | I think this is a great idea. Please make it so! ;-> Anyone can contribute to the RFE database, http://www.docbook.org/rfe/ I personally think <today/> is a really bad idea. The day on which a document is printed is irrelevant. What's important is *when was it last modified*. For this, I think entities serve just fine: <!DOCTYPE ... [ <!ENTITY last-modified-year "2000"> <!ENTITY last-modified-month "Aug"> <!ENTITY last-modified-day "07"> <!-- or even, let CVS/RCS handle it --> <!ENTITY last-modified "$Id$"> ]> I'll further point out that some formatting systems don't even provide *access* to the current date, so it would not be possible, in the general case, to support <today/>. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | just is. And we dance to its Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | music.--Richard Dawkins
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