Re: [xml] man pages have "$Date$" instead of real date

[Henry Law <news lawshouse org>]

On 23/10/12 12:34, Petr Sumbera wrote:
> libxml2-2.9.0/doc/xmlcatalog.1:.TH "XMLCATALOG" "1" "$Date$" "libxml2"
> "xmlcatalog Manual"
> libxml2-2.9.0/doc/xmllint.1:.TH "XMLLINT" "1" "$Date$" "libxml2" ""
>
> I would expect instead of $Date$ some real date string. Not sure how
> this shall works but $Date$ is not translated by xsltproc..

This looka to me like one of the keywords that coders put into source 
code that is stored in a versioning system such as CVS.  The string 
"$Date$" is supposed to be replaced by the date on which the code was 
checked in.  Therefore it's not intended to be translated by xsltproc: 
it shouldn't ever get that far.

See http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_16.html for an 
explanation of how CVS is supposed to use these strings.

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Henry Law            Manchester, England