Re: Emacs - Time-stanp:

[Kevin Rodgers]

Rick Stanley wrote:
> Hello!
>
> In trying to use the emacs Time-stamp: in writing some XHTML/CSS code, I
> used the following:
>
> <meta name="revised" content="Time-stamp: <2006-10-04 13:55:39 rick>" />
>
> This will not pass the W3C XHTML or CSS validators, for a '<' or '>'
> being embedded within an XML attribute .
>
> The only way I could get Time-stamp: to work was to comment out the
> whole line:
>
> <!--  <meta name="revised" content="Time-stamp: &lt;2006-10-04 13:55:39
> rick&gt;" /> -->
>
> The Time-stamp: works, but I loose the 'revised' Meta Data.
>
> I would like to see '&lt;' and '&gt;' be recognized along with the
> current '<>' and '""' deliminators for Time-stamp:, or some other
> deliminator that conforms to valid characters as data inside of an XML
> attribute.

Assuming your XHTML files (which are not code, by the way) are in XML
mode (aka SGML mode in Emacs), try this:

(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (set (make-local-variable 'time-stamp-start)
                 (replace-regexp-in-string (regexp-quote "[\"<]")
                                           "\\(\"\\|&lt;\\)"
                                           time-stamp-start
                                           t t))
            (set (make-local-variable 'time-stamp-end)
                 (replace-regexp-in-string (regexp-quote "[\">]")
                                           "\\(\"\\|&gt;\\)"
                                           time-stamp-end
                                           t t))))


--
Kevin