System and method for least work publishing

摘要

The present invention is a system and method for content management that is operative to determine when a content page contains out of date content items as a result of changes made to the content items stored in a data source. The system comprises a template engine for executing templates to generate a content page, the template engine operative to generate a content page comprising content items selectively retrieved from a data source and arranged on the content page as defined by the template, each content item in the data source being associated with time stamp information to indicate the last time the content item was modified. One or more dependency records are generated to store information regarding the relationship between content items that comprise the content page and the content items stored in the data source. Dependency checking software is provided to compare information contained in the dependency record with time stamp information contained in the data source for each content item that comprises the content page, determine through the comparison those content pages that contain content items that have been modified in the data source, and instruct the template engine to re-generate the content page. Methods for utilizing the dependency records and the above described software components to determine whether a content page is out of date are also disclosed