Re: CVS (Was Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A perspective on DocBook and DSSSL)

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Peter Eisentraut <>
Date
2001-04-18T15:38:16+00:00
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Re: CVS (Was Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: A perspective on DocBook and DSSSL)
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.

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Peter Eisentraut      http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter