[drupal-devel] taxonomy relation and synonyms

[Julian Bond]

Morbus Iff <morbus at disobey.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:19:23
>> Does anything actually use term_relation and term_synonym?
>
>I'll be using them for my "similar keywords" code, yes.

That was the point. I wasn't suggesting getting rid of them but rather 
hijacking them for free form tagging (or whatever the current 
terminology is).

The obvious algorithm is:-
For this tag (tag1) find all the tags (tag2) from this vocabulary that 
are used on the same nodes. Then create term_relation entries for tag1, 
tag2 and tag2, tag1

I think there's something clever that can be done with synonyms to 
enforce some consistency on free form tagging. But none of the current 
tag systems out there seem to do this. And I'm not at all sure what the 
UI would look like.

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