On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jeff Garland wrote:
> > It looks like CVS might help. The keyword $Date$ is expanded to contain the
> > checkin date/time. We might just require that each document have, at the
> > beginning,
> >   <last-modified>$Date$</last-modified>
>
> The only problem is that the it will come polluted with the
> some header stuff like:
>    <last-modified>$Date: 2003/01/26 00:00:00 $</last-modified>

So long as the format is consistent, we can parse it in XSL without too
much fuss. Thankfully < and > won't show up in the $Date$ expansion :)

> > We can then find the <last-modified> element nearest a particular element to
> > figure out when it was last modified. Anyone want to look into this?
>
> What did you want someone to look into?  Just change one of your CVS
> file to include the special syntax and check it into CVS.  The info
> is updated automatically...
>
> Jeff

I guess that's all I needed to know, unless someone else wants to learn
some XSL to parse that string :). The only other question is how to
present the information---maybe a "Last modified on ..." in the footer of
each HTML page?

        Doug



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