On Nov 10, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Walter Underwood wrote:
I should have included examples, but the message was already pretty long.
Sorry about that.
Walter, this is making me feel really stupid because I'm just not getting the point about the category name.
taxonomy ID: National Transportation Library category ID: 283 category name: "Safety" display name: "Maritime > Safety"
For the computer, I have the taxonomy/category ID pair. For humans, I have the display name. Who needs the category name?
Another reason for a separate category ID is that taxonomies change, so the path cannot be a key.
Right, nobody's arguing against the notion of the ID. You say you need taxID, catID, catName, and displayName. I'm saying "why catName"?
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
The notion of having multiple display names hadn't occurred to me but seems sound; in which case it has to be a subelement, not an attribute. But once again, I ask, in the example above, why do you need "category name"? -Tim
