ok - thanks for the quick responses - see additional comments below -
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Dan Robinson wrote:

  
well what we are trying to do is introduce a weighted sort for taxonomy
pages - this is useful for websites with a relatively small number of
nodes where they want an explicitly ordered display.
    

Sounds wuite specialized to me.
do you think?  Maybe my approach is wrong.  Take a look at:

http://npc.civicactions.net/prod/about/team

Where there are nodes here that represent "team" members  - there could be 6-12.  They would be sorted by their importance in the organizational hierarchy, not alphabetically or by order of entry.  So I want to be able to set a weight and have it sort correctly.  It seems like this pattern is found in many, many websites.
  
The weighting part
is easy.  It would be nice to intercept the sql and rewrite it.
Otherwise it seems like the only way to do this is to duplicate the
taxonomy display code yada yada.
    

I think the only thing you'd need to duplicate is the taxonomy_term_page
function.
but I would have to create an entirely new module correct?  There isn't a good way to just "override" the taxonomy_term_page.
  
 Is this a reasonable approach?  Could db_rewrite_sql be jiggered
relatively easily?
    

I think it should be possible to introduce an "order by" element.

Needs some refactoring of db_rewrite_sql and _db_rewrite_sql.
ok - thanks for pointing me there - if this approach seems like the right way to do what I want that's where I will start.

Thanks,

Dan
Cheers,
	Gerhard