In your eXtyles configuration, you may collect dates associated with the manuscript as part of the Document Information dialog. These dates will generally be incorporated directly into the article or book section metadata within the XML file on export.
However, dates associated with the publication process may also be included in the Word file to be rendered in print.
Publishers may include dates associated with the manuscript history in a single paragraph or in separate paragraphs.
eXtyles will automatically identify:
then apply the appropriate attribute to the date in the XML file.
All of this identification can be done without any special markup in the Word file. The key to this process is the consistent use of wording to identify each date.
As can be seen in the examples below, eXtyles automatically parses the date into day, month, and year elements.
This process is most robust if months are spelled out as words or as abbreviations (both English and French month names are supported) and years are given as four digits.
Dates given in the form XXXX-XX-XX (e.g. 2012-05-11) will be parsed as YYYY-MM-DD, i.e. 11th May not 5th November (see Example 1). If months are given as digits (e.g. 12-08-2010 or 12-08-10), by default, eXtyles will identify the date as MM-DD-YY(YY), i.e. U.S. date format—December 8th, 2010, and will warn that the date is ambiguous.
It is possible to modify the export to omit the warning (if international date format is never encountered) or to treat the international date format [i.e. DD-MM-YY(YY)] as the default (see Example 3 for a Russian example).
