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If enabled (and properly coded), XOOPS will cache the output of a certain page. This means that any database queries and other real-time updating will not be performed, but instead the page will be served from the cache.
This is done in the root/header.php, if you assign the $xoopsOption['theme_main'] a value PRIOR to including header.php, which in turn should be included before database queries and other processing.