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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Current date?


Hi,

Speaking of dates and timestamps, we had a need to timestamp our set of
books with today's date, but keep the timestamps of the books within the
set at the date of the last change.  We wrote a shell script that reads
the source directory of each book, gets the date of the file that was
changed most recently, and writes a file with entities for each book,
with that date.  That file itself is then included as an entity in the
common entity file.  You can view the script here:

http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-latestdate.html

(We're using SGML, but this would work with XML too.)

Cheerio!

Bob

...
> > 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
> 
...

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Robert McIlvride (robert@cogent.ca)
Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)


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