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(Yes, I'm answering mail that's 46 weeks old. Sigh. Maybe if I get caught up, I'll do better at keeping up?) / Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> was heard to say: |>>>>> Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>: [...] |> My own approach to the "today's date" versioning problem is to use a |> CVS $Date$ somewhere. That way it's automatically updated whenever I |> checkin a new version of a document. | | How about a PI to extract the actual date as inserted by CVS in | $Date$, and transform it according to a date specification (as was | suggested for the formatting date PI)? If you put the date in the document, you don't need a PI, you can just process it when you format the element that contains the date. There is an extension function (in the website distribution, I think) that transforms CVS dates into the local timezone (CVS always stores dates in UTC). Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Doubt is to certainty as neurosis http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | is to psychosis. The neurotic is Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | in doubt and has fears about | persons and things; the psychotic | has convictions and makes claims | about them. In short, the neurotic | has problems, the psychotic has | solutions.--Thomas Szasz
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