Hi Radu,

Works like a charm. Thank you!!!

Regards,

Frank

Hi Frank,

I created a small DITA OT plugin (please see attached) which adds the same customization you have for Miramo to all XHTML-based outputs, including CHM. You can look into it to see how the plugin works.

DITA OT plugins are installed something like this:

https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/dita-ot-install-plugin.html

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 2/14/23 10:50, Frank Dissinger wrote:

Hi Radu,

Thank you for your reply. I am afraid I am not XSLT-savvy enough to adapt sketched code and I have never created any DITA-OT plugin. I would need the exact code and precise instructions where to put that code in the CHM transformation...

I wonder whether the following solution I found for MiramoPDF could be adapted to oXygen's CHM transformation?

Copyright.dita

<ph audience="print" outputclass="current_year">

...\Oxygen XML Editor 21\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT3.x\plugins\com.miramo.oris-mmpdf\config\xsl\custom.xsl

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs opentopic" version="2.0"
    xmlns:mm="http://www.miramo.com/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:opentopic="http://www.idiominc.com/opentopic">
    <xsl:include href="./functionstubs.xsl"/>

    <xsl:variable name="bc.currentDate" select="format-date(current-date(), '[Y0001]')"/>
    <xsl:template match="*[@outputclass = 'current_year']" >
           <xsl:value-of select="$bc.currentDate" />
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Could this code be added somewhere in the CHM transformation?

Regards,

Frank

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Am 14.02.2023 um 07:10 schrieb Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu):

Hi Frank,

An Oxygen editor variable expands only once. You seem to need some kind of macro which would expand every time you publish.

So you seem to need more like a publishing customization.

For DITA XML maybe you can use the <data> element with a certain name:

<data name="currentYear"/>

and then create a DITA Open Toolkit XSLT-based customization plugin which matches this element at publishing time and replaces it with the current date. Are you familiar with XSLT? Would you like to pursue this direction? If so maybe I can try to sketch a small publishing plugin which would do this.

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 2/13/23 18:36, Frank Dissinger wrote:

Hi list,

How can I insert the current date into a dita file? I would like to have oXygen automatically update the year of a copyright notice. I know that I can define editor variables. But how can I embed them in the dita code?

If this needs to be tied to the XSL that produces the deliverable: I need this for CHM, which I generate with oXygen. (I have already found a solution for MiramoPDF. ) And I'd need to know where exactly to add the code... Thank you.

Regards,

Frank

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