At 11:00 PM 1/25/2003, Douglas Paul Gregor wrote:
>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?

One common form is "Revised 1 January, 2003"

--Beman




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