Tagging

[aphenine]

When I was looking around the database, I noticed that the tag database obeyed a tree form, which meant that tags could be stored with categories and subcategories and so on.

This is not a feature that's implemented, and it's high on my list of "features I'd love to have in DW" (possibly no 1 :-) ), and I have also written some tree algorithms using HTML/PHP before, so I thought I might try to give it a go and see if it went easily. However, when I went looking, there are no bugs in bugzilla about tree tagging, nor does there appear to be any information about this as a planned feature, despite the DB support.

So, I was wondering, can any of you please tell me more?

Comments

[av8rmike]

I don't know what problem you're trying to solve with your particular implementation.

I don't have a dog in this fight, so to speak, but individual tag length limit is one problem this implementation could conceivably fix. Nested tags right now aren't really nested, they just use a delimiter that the S2 code uses to split and display in different levels. The depth of the nesting is limited to whatever you can squeeze into the current 40-character limit. To use yvi's tags as examples, her longest is 40 characters, and looks to be cut off:

character:buffy-verse:wesley wyndam-pryc

With a true tag tree implementation, individual tags would still have a character limit, but the amount of nesting wouldn't be subject to the same limit (it'd have to have its own, I assume).