saxon:last-modified

If the argument is an empty sequence, the result is an empty sequence.

Otherwise the argument must be a valid URI. If it is a relative URI, this will be resolved against the base URI from the static context. The function has been tested with URIs using the file and http schemes, and is not guaranteed to give a result with other URI schemes (or indeed with these, under all circumstances).

The function returns an xs:dateTime value which will usually be in a specific timezone. The result can therefore be formatted using the format-dateTime() function, or input to arithmetic and comparisons against other dates and times.

If the URI is not syntactically valid, error FODC0005 is thrown. If the resource identified by the URI cannot be retrieved, error FODC0002 is thrown. If the resource is successfully retrieved but no date/time information is available, the function returns an empty sequence.

Example:

format-dateTime(saxon:last-modified(resolve-uri('lookup.xml', static-base-uri()))

This function differs from the EXPath function file:last-modified in that it takes a URI rather than a filename as input, and may work for resources other than files: for example, HTTP resources, provided the last-modified header is present in the HTTP response.

To find the last-modified date of the file from which a given node was loaded, use saxon:last-modified(document-uri($node)).