Re: [docbook-apps] Current date?

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Brian Burridge wrote:
> Is there something I can put in my docbook, that will represent the
> current date, so that when the stylesheets process my file, the current
> date is put there?

* generate a timestamp (this is a M$-DOS example)
echo %date% %time% >timestamp.txt


* declare this file as an entity:

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "docbookx.dtd" [
...
<!ENTITY timestamp SYSTEM "timestamp.txt">
...
]>


* and use it
...
<pubdate>&timestamp;</pubdate>
...


Lars