[Tagdb] updating Items

[Duncan Gough]

On 28 Oct 2005, at 09:40, Onur Turgay wrote:

> hi,
> I read all blog entries about tag related schemas. I have a concern  
> now. Let's assume we use the three table cross related schema  
> described in slicing and dicing part 2. When I update an Item, do I  
> have to remove all Item-User-Tag relations for that item and insert  
> them one by one again? Or is there a more optimized method for  
> detecting changes?
>
> BTW I plan to use comma seperated multi-word tags in my application.

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...

>
> Thanks in advance.
> Onur
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