--On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 09:17:35 AM -0800 Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pardon me for being dense, but if you have a unique identifier and a display version, why do you need a name too? -Tim
I should have included examples, but the message was already pretty long. Sorry about that.
taxonomy ID: National Transportation Library category ID: 283 category name: "Safety" display name: "Maritime > Safety"
Another reason for a separate category ID is that taxonomies change, so the path cannot be a key. A category for a single politician might move from "Governors" to "Senators" to "Attorney General", and then to "Retired". If you want to keep the "John Ashcroft" articles together, then the category ID must be independent of the path.
And then there is the mutiple path issue. Here is a made-up taxonomy to demonstrate that.
taxonomy ID: US Political Stuff category ID: jashcroft1 category name: John Ashcroft display name: People | Politicians | Retired | John Ashcroft display name: Political Parties | Republican | People | John Ashcroft display name: Presidential Administrations | George W. Bush | Cabinet | John Ashcroft
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