Re: Last modified date on nodes

Nkuvu,
See What XML generators are currently available on PerlMonks?. There is a node attribute for the last update and/or edit time. I remember having a conversation about this years ago with tye as a means for making an efficient thread watcher to let you know when the content of a node in a thread you were interested in had changed. I don't remember the exact details but as far as I know, the attribute is not updated when a node is modified (IOW - it doesn't work).

Not being a devil, I can't say for sure but I would think that could be used as a stepping stone. Unfortunately, as far as I know - that has never been fixed.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^2: Last modified date on nodes (node cache) by tye (Sage) on Mar 23, 2009 at 23:59 UTC
The plan was that this would be fixed as a consequence of deploying the new node cache. That would still be true and that is where I am likely to concentrate my efforts. But replacing the node cache is a large project and, although I've done most of the work required for this already, it still takes a surprisingly long time for deployment to actually get done. So, it might be good to fix this specific bug within the old node cache for the short term. - tye	[reply]

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Re^2: Last modified date on nodes (node cache)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 23, 2009 at 23:59 UTC

The plan was that this would be fixed as a consequence of deploying the new node cache. That would still be true and that is where I am likely to concentrate my efforts. But replacing the node cache is a large project and, although I've done most of the work required for this already, it still takes a surprisingly long time for deployment to actually get done. So, it might be good to fix this specific bug within the old node cache for the short term.

- tye

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