[development] Taxonomy: Multiple parents?

Sean Robertson seanr at ngpsoftware.com
Tue Jul 24 17:44:50 UTC 2007


I've had times when I would like to have done this too.  This particular 
use case is a very good example.



David Strauss wrote:
> Robert Douglass wrote:
>> In my opinion, any time multiple parents are used it is a mistake in the
>> data model.
> 
> We're using Drupal to revamp the web portfolio of a private intelligence
> firm, and we have some uses:
> 
> Post Soviet-bloc
> -- Poland
> -- Russia
> European
> -- Poland
> -- France
> 
> The parents are children are so related that most users would find
> splitting them into multiple vocabularies redundant:
> 
> Location:
> Post Soviet-bloc
> European
> 
> Country:
> Poland
> Russia
> France
> 

-- 
Sean Robertson
Web Developer
NGP Software, Inc.
seanr at ngpsoftware.com
(202) 686-9330
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