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Re: CVS (Was Re: A perspective on DocBook and DSSSL)
- To: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>
- Subject: Re: CVS (Was Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A perspective on DocBook and DSSSL)
- From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx dot net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:47:44 +0200 (CEST)
- Cc: Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns dot aus dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Dan York writes:
> It would certainly be possible to use the $Revision$ keyword
> somewhere in the main text of the document. Something like:
>
> <para>This is $Revision$ from $Date$. </para>
>
> Which CVS would expand into the rather ugly:
>
> <para>This is $Revision: 1.2$ from $Date: 2001/04/17 19:15:44 $. </para>
I've been thinking of using a processing instruction, like
<date><?cvsdate value="$Date$"></date>
in my documents. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, though, but I
think it's the way to go for me.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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