set <date> to currmonth and curryear

type_enhancement | by arusso@amsl.com

Request for the ability to get current month and current year in the rendered files using or similar.

Would be used during editorial processing as a document moves through the queue. Would use within and well as within a that is moving through the queue simultaneously, i.e., a cluster. (Using empty is not preferred because there's zero output in the case.)

Example (where this reference appears in a document that will be published simultaneously):

<reference anchor='RFCnnnn' target='https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfcnnnn'>
  <front>
    <title>Foo Protocol</title>
    <author initials='J' surname='Doe' fullname='Jane Doe'>
      <organization />
    </author>
    <date month='currmonth' year='curryear' />
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name='RFC' value='nnnn'/>
  <seriesInfo name='DOI' value='10.17487/RFCnnnn'/>
</reference>

where <date month='currmonth' year='curryear' /> would yield "July 2021" today.

Issue migrated from trac:656 at 2022-02-08 07:16:24 +0000

The issue names no implementation files or tests. Start by tracing how date elements are rendered in xml2rfc and how dates inside references are handled. Done means a current month and year can be requested with the proposed date syntax and the rendered output matches the processing date.