Martin, did this fix work? I'd appreciate feedback, as we're putting
together fixes for 3.2.0b6 in the coming weeks. Thanks.
Last week I wrote:
> According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > I just tried setting date_factor to give more recent pages more weight. I
> > found that the top-returned documents are from way in the future (e.g.
> > 12-12-2005). When I look at the file properties, they were all
> > 12-12-2003, which is when the file was created. I looked in the metadata,
> > the DC.Date.Created, DC.Date.Issued, DC.Date.Modified were all also
> > 12-12-2003. However the DC.Date.Review metadata is 12-12-2005, so I'm
> > guessing that is what htdig is using for date_factor. Is this an htdig
> > bug? Can I get around this problem somehow?
>
> D'oh! It's a bug alright! You don't say which version of htdig you're
> running, so I can't provide a patch for you, but I think the fix should
> be just a matter of finding the following lines in htdig/HTML.cc:
>
> else if (metadatetags.CompareWord(cache) &&
> config->Boolean("use_doc_date",0))
>
> and changing them to this:
>
> else if (metadatetags.CompareWord(cache, which, length) &&
> cache[length] == '\0' &&
> config->Boolean("use_doc_date",0))
>
> This is around line 846 in 3.2.0b5, or line 802 in 3.1.6 (which has a
> couple other bugs related to meta date handling - see Date-viewing.0
> and metadate.0 in ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/htdig-patches/3.1.6/).
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Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)
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