HTML headers and footers
The DITA OT allows you to specify files that contain boilerplate headers, footers, and HTML <head> information.
You specify the locations of these files with the Ant properties listed in Table 1.
Table 1: Ant properties for headers and footers
|
Property Name |
Specifies |
|
args.hdr |
The running header for the output file. |
|
args.ftr |
The running footer for the output file. |
|
args.hdf |
Additional information for the HTML <head> tag. This is useful for specifying metadata or additional link information. |
The files referenced by these properties must contain well-formed XML. If you’re using HTML, your HTML must meet all strict XHTML rules, including balanced open and close tags (<li> and </li>), empty tags for stand-alone elements (<hr/> and <br/>), quoted attribute values -(attribute="value"), and so on.
The example shown here illustrates how to add a footer. The steps for adding a header or <head> tag information is similar, only you use a different property name and specify a different file.
To add a copyright footer to your HTML pages:
- Create a footer file in the resource folder, named my_footer.html, that contains:
- Modify your Ant project file(my_xhtml.xml), adding this line near the location indicated by the ➌ in the example on page 4:
<p
class="copyright_footer">
Copyright © 2009 Scriptorium Publishing Services. All
rights reserved.
</p>
<property name="args.ftr"
value="${dita.dir}${file.separator}resource${file.separator}my_footer.html"/>
When the DITA OT processes a source document, this footer is inserted automatically near the end of the output:
<p class="copyright_footer">
Copyright © 2009 Scriptorium Publishing Services. All rights reserved.
</p>
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