[development] Taxonomy: Multiple parents?

[Robert Douglass]

In my opinion, any time multiple parents are used it is a mistake in the 
data model. For example, if you have regional offices and each office 
has a sale, customer and advertising contact person, you might be 
tempted to model the data like this:

Boston
--sales
--customer
--advertising
Detroit
--sales
--customer
--advertising
New York
--sales
--customer
--advertising

One quickly sees, however, that the cleaner model would be two 
vocabularies, one for location, one for contact person. I have no use 
for multiple parents and would support deprecating it for eventual removal.

-Robert


Konstantin Käfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the taxonomy.module provides a way to make term descendant to multiple 
> independent terms (multiple parents). Does anyone use this kind of 
> functionality, and what for?
>
> Konstantin Käfer – http://kkaefer.com/
>
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