Harry Verwayen wrote:
> if you
> view a site as an 'edition', how can you make the updates accessible without
> destroying the elder site?

Why not use a tool that looks like the CVS system?
http://www.cyclic.com/CVS/index_html

(note that CVS is not really intended to save graphics- so you would
have to cobble up a solution for that , perhaps by using rsync.
http://rsync.samba.org/

>Another thing is how do you know when a site has been
> updated? Are there tools that can notify you when that happens (and ideally
> integrate with webstripper so that the update is done automatically?

Their are web sites that will send you an e-mail if a site changes, but
if you are checking on many sites you may find it simpler to run your
own spider...

You could just ask to get the "head" information, and compare that to
the last update info you have..


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