Paul Everitt wrote:

> However, organizing by containment is only one of the ways to get there.
> Saying the everything related to "news" goes under "news" works...except
> when it doesn't.  For instance, what if something is about both "news" and
> "gecko"?

It goes under news if it's dated, under it's respective directory if
it's informative; see the thread under
 Thomas, Matthew. "Re: New Structure", netscape.public.mozilla.documentation
     (2001-01-02)
     message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> One solution is an architecture (a la dmoz) that decouples the organization
> from the location.  This is done with metadata (ours is based on Dublin
> Core).  You then have virtual folder hierarchies that are actually metadata
> queries.  On the downside, this requires some buyin from authors to
> participate in the system.  Each of these folders can then optionally be RSS
> channels for syndication.

Can you give an example? I'm not sure I follow.

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