[Tagdb] updating Items

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Hello,

> > BTW I plan to use comma seperated multi-word tags in my
> application.

Ouch.  I suggest you think about this some more.  Storing tags this way
has a lot of limitations.  Trust me, tried it myself and moving away
from that felt goooood :)

> Apologies for going off topic straight way, but why are we using  
> strict tag definitions like commas, spaces, new-lines, etc? In my  
> brief experience people tag things in a way that makes sense to them 
> 
> and it's down to the application to infer meaning from that.
> 
> Having seen a few variations from the users on Millionsofgames.com I 
> 
> decided that as much as I like new line terminated tags, the user  
> decides. After all, it's not too hard to let the code figure out what
>  
> kind of 'tag terminator' they're using. For example, a long string  
> full of spaces is probably meant to be space separated. Just a  
> thought...

Onur - I agree and that is what I do over at simpy.com !

case 1) Tag string without spaces, but without tag separator
case 2) Tag string with spaces and with at least 1 tag separator

Otis

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